| WV | HB2042 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate in cases of child neglect or abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 2nd reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | HB2354 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ban from foods sold in this state the dyes Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 1st reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB269 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Health from promulgating rules that require public water systems or businesses to have backflow preventers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Ordered to House |
| WV | HB2735 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide equal or preferred treatment to persons who have natural immunity or antibodies from their contraction of an infectious or communicable disease as opposed to persons who have vaccine induced immunity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2776 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Secretary of the Department of Health to propose legislative rules to include alpha-gal syndrome on the list of diseases that shall be required to be reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2794 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to guarantee the right to life to all human beings and to provide definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2737 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Higher Education Health and Aid Grant," which requires the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission to establish a grant program to address food, health, and hygiene insecurities among students enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2780 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a subsidy for child care services rendered to children of child care program employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2732 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a religious exemption to compulsory school immunizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2793 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons from erecting, maintaining, funding, leasing, or otherwise facilitating billboard advertisements or statements that display messages concerning the availability of abortions in bordering states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2809 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when a minor may bring a medical malpractice cause of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2765 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant authority to attending physicians to use his or her professional judgement to certify that a patient's serious medical condition would benefit from the use of medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2796 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches within Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2789 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Michael Brandon Cochran Act; provide definitions; require certain medical testing of ICU patients; establish a monetary penalty; and create a grant program and fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2733 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Unborn Child Protection act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill creates a process of informed consent. The bill provides for printed information. The bill provides for the creation of an Internet web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2811 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the felony crime of sale or barter of a child for adoption and the prohibition of placement of children for adoption by an unlicensed person or organization; and criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2376 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the requirement that the children of foster parents must be immunized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2672 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to requires persons or entities rendering medical services to patients who were under the age of 18 years at the time of the services to notify these patients after they reach 18 years of age to contact the providers of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2638 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate that criminal charges be brought against parents when children are removed from their custody due to abuse and neglect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2690 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Dental Insurance Transparency Act to regulate dental health care service plans; provide for transparency of expenditures of patient premiums; require carriers to file annual reports; authorize methods of paym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2701 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define neighborhood hospitals and provide an exemption for neighborhood hospitals, ambulatory health care facilities, and ambulatory surgical facilities from requiring a certificate of need.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the requirement of certain immunizations as condition of being a foster parent and provide an exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2712 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove abortion exceptions for rape and incest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2174 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modernize the birthing center statute by updating language to make the statute more consistent with nationally recognized best practices in the field and by making the administrative requirements and processes associate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB299 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the state's regulation of pubertal modulation and hormonal therapy to better protect the health and safety of minors in light of recent scientific developments that further demonstrate the harm of these drugs and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate 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 | SB51 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove exceptions for rape and incest for the current abortion law in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Bill withdrawn by lead sponsor |
| WV | SB28 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation and evidenced-based cancer imaging; and providing that this testing is not subject to cost-sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB2350 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enhance nutrition in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Markup Discussion |
| WV | HB2631 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require information to be provided orally to all patients in order for the patient to give informed consent knowing all potential outcomes for all medical tests, prescriptions, and treatments; providing a short title; d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2621 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to describe the process of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2598 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement provided there is not a court finding that said participation is not in the best interest of the juvenile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB537 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide approved pregnancy help organizations flexibility to receive funding for various costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB542 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that standalone methadone treatment programs or clinics not operated as part of a comprehensive primary care clinic are guilty of a felony offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Committee |
| WV | SB249 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits. The bill defines and expands exemptions. The bill clarifies the Secretary's duties when there is a lack of funding or inability to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit involuntary hospitalization of persons experiencing substance use disorder presenting an imminent threat of danger to self, family, or others as a result of a substance use disorder. The bill sets forth the proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Committee |
| WV | HB2534 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Persons with Disabilities Registry; and provide for a public records exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for participation or employment in any organization that receives state dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to extend qualified immunity to employees of private child welfare agency or provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require medical professionals to report to the Bureau for Public Health all injuries and side effects from vaccines. And requiring the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to produce an annual report for the Leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2557 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates definitions. Finally, the bill provides for utilization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2575 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Dementia Services Director as a full-time permanent position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2045 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the denial, cancellation, or other discrimination in policies of life insurance, sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance due to the status of the insured as a living organ donor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB2175 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to consolidate and update the behavioral health center licensing provisions and requirements. This update would separate behavioral health centers based on treatment settings, residential or non-residential. This division ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Markup Discussion |
| WV | HB2203 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the vaccine requirements for public virtual schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Educational Choice Committee |
| WV | HB2457 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require political subdivisions and the Department of Health to collect and report data regarding the cost of treating undocumented immigrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2503 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth requirements for foster child clothing allowances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2485 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a licensed health care facility to move locations, up to 10 miles from the original location, without obtaining a new license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2409 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Hospital Transparency Act and providing for the administration of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2473 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase and maintain the bracketed tax rates on the privilege of establishing or operating a health maintenance organization, specify effective dates, and provide a process for rates to be certified to the tax commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
