| HB5684 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Supreme Court to create program of child protection commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4169 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to aligning mental health examination requirements with those required for involuntary hospitalizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5613 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Fleet Management Division to adopt the use of telematic systems in all state-owned vehicles and remove antiquated language referencing a one-time audit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5089 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for verified mastery of content standards for transcripts when a student enrolls or re-enrolls in a public school in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5101 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act; create and increase penalties for certain acts of domestic violence; and change bail requirement for domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5353 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to bring virtual currency kiosks within the purview of money transmission licensure and create disclosure requirements and daily transaction limitations for new and existing customers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5015 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the interstate practice of respiratory therapy with the goal of improving public access to respiratory therapy services by providing respiratory therapists licensed in a member state the ability to practice i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4552 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the law-enforcement authority of correctional officers of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4755 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create enhanced sentencing for repeat offenders of aggravated vehicular homicide, driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, and third offense driving under the influence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5466 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the intervention and prevention program, clarify the definitions of the program, and update the code with the renamed program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4009 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Portable Benefit Account Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4416 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reclassify forestry equipment as Class I property to provide tax benefits to forestry businesses by acknowledging forestry as a part of agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4842 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the civil cause of action for disclosure of intimate images.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4865 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a program allowing election official trainees to be appointed as election officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4784 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend Qualified Opportunity Zones until July 1, 2032.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4798 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to implement a wearable panic alert system, to be known as Alyssa's law, in all schools in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5012 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for in-year school personnel movement to meet school needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5227 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Secretary of State to charge a fee of up to $5 plus any amount passed on by a financial institution for any returned or dishonored check, money order, or draft. This fee covers the administrative costs for han...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5048 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that foster children awaiting residential placement shall continue to receive education through virtual learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4850 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide educational training regarding the fiduciary and other duties of executors and administrators of estates and requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to provide this online training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4996 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to creating mandatory bail conditions for individuals charged with making terrorist threats against a school, or a similar location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5515 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise outdated provisions within Articles 4 and 5, Chapter 23 of the West Virginia Code, which pertain to the administration of workers' compensation claims. Much of the revised language is antiquated and predates the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4801 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add the demolition of unsafe and unsanitary structures and planning for reuse or improvement of property owned by municipalities and county commissions as permissible expenditures of revenue from the hotel occupancy tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5212 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revise, update, and streamline the requirements for higher education grants, scholarships, loans, and financial aid for postsecondary education programs, workforce development initiatives, and workforce grants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4354 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to set forth requirements for foster child clothing allowances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5088 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for members who retire after July 1, 2026, and to provide funding for the benefit,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4577 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a reciprocity agreement with the Republic of Ireland for driver licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4610 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit access to individualized treatments for eligible patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4606 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that judicial officers consider the residency status of a person charged with a criminal violation in determining bail and conditions of pretrial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4452 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove "Mortmain" restrictions on religious organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4712 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enact Baylea's Law and increase the penalties for DUI causing death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4799 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the cold case task force for the State of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5354 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Higher Education Policy Commission to promulgate rules regarding administrative exemption and mental health loan program; and to repeal rules regarding purchasing efficiencies and research trust fund progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5323 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the director of Natural Resources to propose legislative rules changing indexing of license and stamp fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5458 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to professionals to be licensed by the West Virginia Board of Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5214 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require parents with abuse and/or neglect claims substantiated against them to be drug tested prior to reunification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4404 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials from $500 to $5,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4390 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that a kinship parent be paid a subsidy equal to that of a foster parent in specified circumstances and set forth the timeframe for such payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4028 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide contactors of school facilities with a tax exemption on construction materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4412 | Pass | 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] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5457 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide one-half service credit for periods of disability service to count toward retirement for State Troopers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4995 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of "Oscar's Law." The bill addresses video cameras within special education classrooms. The bill provides protections for nonverbal and autistic children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4004 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Recharge West Virginia Program, which reimburses West Virginia employers for the costs of upskilling their workforces. To be eligible for reimbursement, an employee must have received a 25% wage increase a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4138 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to address Code consistency given the passage of SB240 during 2025 Regular Session to ensure that the current crimes of "sexual extortion" and "aggravated sexual extortion" are offenses that require registration as a sex o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5462 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify limitations on mine subsidence insurance recovery limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5087 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact, create the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact Commission, and provide for the administration of the Compact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4464 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to Underground Facilities Damage prevention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5401 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB4546 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require biennial reports for limited liability and foreign limited liability companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| HB5168 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to transfer, after the end of each fiscal year from any remaining and available net profits in the State Lottery Fund, the sum of $12 million to the Emergency Medical Services Salary Enhancement Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
