| WV | HB2047 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit cameras in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster homes and provide for exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2542 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate audio recording during Child Protective Services investigations and interactions during visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Human Services Committee |
| WV | HB2911 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill provides for compensation of a guardian ad litem in cases involving the West Virginia Public Defender Services, relates to requirements and rates of compensation for a guardian ad litem in a minor settlement proceeding, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2880 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define parent resource navigators in the code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2917 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that any 16 or 17 year old who seeks a marriage license from the county clerks of this state be a West Virginia resident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2533 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to establishing a drug testing program for adults who apply to serve as foster parents, kinship parents, or caregivers to displaced children in the legal custody of the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Human Services Committee |
| WV | HB2768 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Juvenile Justice Reform Oversight Committee to recommend averted costs reinvestment; create a juvenile justice account and provide its purpose, funding, and disbursements; require new data to be collected an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2033 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit, as a condition for eligibility to foster or adopt, by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, the requirement to affirm, accept or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2609 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower parents with control over software app downloads for children under 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology Committee |
| WV | HB2689 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create liability for publishers and distributors of sexual material harmful to minors, to provide definitions, to create a cause of action, and to provide for the administration, applicability, exceptions, and penalties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB286 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2035 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a three-year pilot program relating to West Virginia Public Guardian ad Litem Services, established initially in three circuits, and providing services initially in three circuits. Circuit based West Virginia Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Courts Committee |
| WV | HB2195 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Courts Committee |
| WV | HB2369 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of improvement periods a parent may have per child or actions in abuse and neglect proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2041 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the time to terminate a foster care arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2201 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to adoption and legal guardianship proceedings arising from abuse or neglect proceeding; requiring department pay attorney's fees for representing adoptive parents; providing process for adoption of juveniles resultin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB83 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Foster Care Ombudsman to have access to records related to child abuse or neglect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB164 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records without requiring a child to sign a document permitting his or her parents to see the records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB165 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all financial support presently available to certified foster parents is provided to kinship parents and fictive kin. The barriers and burdens placed upon kinship parents and fictive kin are too onerous.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB69 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to notify parents when prescribing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB166 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that parents, named as a respondent, in an abuse and neglect case or investigation by Child Protective Services are given a copy of their rights that is written in plain, understandable language and giving autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB62 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require centralized intake to have a process for a family assessment track and investigative track for protective services and to define these terms, to revise the process for centralized intake to incorporate these two...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB207 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide definitions, to prohibit public funding of drag shows in West Virginia, and to prohibit minors from being involved in or attending drag shows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB265 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to transfer child welfare enforcement responsibilities to the West Virginia State Police. The bill transfers employees, funds and property of the Department of Health and Human Resources to the West Virginia State Police. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
