| WV | HB5520 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify competency proceedings for juvenile delinquency court actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 50, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4867 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create liability for publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors. The bill provides definitions. The bill requires any commercial entity that provides pornography and other materials defined as being harmf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | HB5609 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to confidentiality of child care recrods and the Foster Care Ombudman
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Removed from calendar by Rules Committee |
| WV | HB5065 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill generally relates to continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Finance |
| WV | HB5572 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5664 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Scholars Grant Program, which would provide a $100 grant to each child born in West Virginia to establish a qualified higher education savings program account through the West Virginia State Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5585 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to support of child care in kinship/relative custody situations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5581 | Intro
Sine Die | Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5532 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Safe For Kids Act, provide definitions, prohibit addictive feeds, create time controls, create age flags, ensure nondiscrimination, provide for rulemaking authority, provide the scope of the article, and prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5515 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5409 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5226 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect minors on social media and other Internet uses, listing requirements for social media usage, prohibit data collection on certain accounts, prohibit certain advertising, redirection of accounts, prohibit certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5398 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5266 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit evidence of accusations of committing false allegations of child abuse in Family Court proceedings unless an individual has been convicted of that crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5181 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to mandate audio recording during Child Protective Services investigations and interactions during visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5053 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a statutory right for siblings to petition a circuit or family court for visitation with their minor child siblings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5003 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5026 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to 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 re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4898 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4781 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for maintainance and funding all juvenile group homes in this state, restoring, repairing, and staffing the West Virginia Children's Home in Randolph County, requiring reports on the needs for each facility, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4718 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide online privacy protections for children under the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4526 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a memorial at the Capitol for the unborn whose lives were lost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4560 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize family courts to certify a juvenile to the jurisdiction of a circuit court for proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4451 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an agreement concerning subsidized adoption be required to provide for direct payment by the Department of Health and Human Resources the attorney's fees of the adoptive parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4189 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a court to verify that before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home, that if a parent is participating in a medication-assisted treatment program he or she shall be successfully f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4211 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish limitation on law-enforcement officers conducting custodial interrogations of a child with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4180 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
