| WV | HB3274 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to develop and administer the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Plan. The bill creates the Health Care Affordability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
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| WV | HB3247 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Abuse and Neglect Oversight Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for legislative findings regarding the necessity for this article. The bill provides for the enactment of the article, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
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| WV | HB3101 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for medical guidelines and information related to breast density.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth from conversion therapy, also known as sexual orientation change efforts or reparative therapy. The bill makes legislative findings and sets forth a purpose. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change code references to "physician assistant" to "physician associate." It defines physician associate to be synonymous with any other term that the American Academy of Physician Associates designates as the proper na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is relating to gender reassignment medical services for minors; making findings and declarations; defining sex; establishing prohibited treatment for minors; providing exceptions; creating responsibilities for school personne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for Supplemental Medicaid Reimbursement for Academic Medical Center Acute Care Providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit gender transition surgeries, treatments, and therapies to minors. The bill establishes penalties for practitioners in violation of regulations. The bill safeguards the mental and physical health of minors. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that quality indicators for evaluation of a nursing education program be defined, describe when program visits to a nursing pre-licensure program may be conducted, granting of conditional approval by the board, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
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| WV | SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring patient notification when screening indicates dense breast tissue
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
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| WV | SB672 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require parity with non-preferred oral branded antipsychotic agents by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Division of Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
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| WV | SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to dissolve the Public Employees Insurance Agency and convert it to an employer-owned mutual insurance company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| WV | SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the exemption for private practice physicians to provide magnetic resonance imaging services without certificate of need review. The bill provides that to be eligible the private office practice must have at leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| WV | HB2186 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that a smoke evacuation system is in place to protect medical personnel during any medical treatment where there could be surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| WV | SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require cooperation with child support enforcement as a condition of eligibility for public assistance and authorize rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| WV | HB3200 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize The Department of Health and Human Resources to transfer comprehensive community mental health centers and comprehensive intellectual disability facilities to regional mental health centers or regional intelle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| WV | SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to requiring health benefit plan coverage for medically necessary dental procedures that result from cancer treatment. The bill creates the Oral Health and Cancer Rights Act; explains the scope of procedures covered a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| WV | SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that no law may require a person to receive or use a medical product and to ensure that there will be no penalties associated with refusing the medical product or refusing to disclose whether the product has been...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| WV | SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the COVID-19 or other experimental vaccines for school attendance. Parents or guardians have a right to object to vaccinations based upon reasons of conscience, including religious and philosophical reasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| WV | SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to define a voluntary cost share assistance program and provide that this law not to apply to amounts obtained under this program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
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| WV | SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit mandates for vaccinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
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| WV | SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate birthing centers, ambulatory surgery centers, and ambulatory care centers, from certificate of need review. The bill eliminates birthing centers from exemptions; creates a three-year pilot program for MRI and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
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| WV | SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to develop and administer the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Plan. The bill creates the Health Care Affordability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
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| WV | SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of prescription nonopioid medications. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to make information available to the public about the availability of such treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
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| WV | HB2789 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt certain services from the certificate of need.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB563 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide whistleblower protections to employees of state hospitals who report unsafe practices to governmental or regulatory agencies or the federally mandated protection and advocacy system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| WV | SB566 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend the termination date of the West Virginia Advisory Council on Rare Diseases due to a delay in beginning its duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| WV | SB557 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a pharmacy or pharmacist may decline to dispense a prescription drug or pharmacy service when reimbursement under West Virginia Public Employees Insurance is less than the pharmacy or pharmacist's acquisiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
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| WV | HB2613 | Engross
Sine Die | Relating to the administration of anesthetics
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB551 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Medicaid state plan amendment. The bill provides that the Bureau of Medical Services shall seek a state plan amendment. The bill provides that the state plan amendment provides for cost sharing and/or premiums ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
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| WV | SB535 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add additional exemptions to the compulsory childhood immunization of school children. The public has a right to be free from communicable diseases, but a parent or guardian has the right to raise a child according to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| WV | SB524 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to improve family planning services. The bill requires insurance coverage for specified sterilization procedures. The bill provides for a one-time tax credit for adoption expenses. The bill provides for early intervention ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
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| WV | SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide benefits to employees with pneumoconiosis under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
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| WV | SB521 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to improve patient safety in the medical cannabis program by authorizing permitted, regulated medical cannabis processors to manufacture medical cannabis in edible form for dispensing to certified patients in the state; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
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| WV | SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
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| WV | SB437 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the current reimbursement formula of state funds to childcare facilities from an attendance model to an enrollment model.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
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| WV | SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize model Community Health Equity Initiative Demonstration Projects which use existing state and local resources to promote community health and wellbeing. The bill authorizes the Commissioner of the Bureau for Pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
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| WV | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish protocols for collecting and preserving DNA evidence from rape and incest victims who receive surgical or chemical abortions; and notifying those persons that this evidence is being collected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
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| WV | SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent state, county or municipal agencies from covering any portion of PEIA premiums for a spouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-16
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| WV | SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the required medical coverage from various providers relating to autism spectrum disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-13
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| WV | SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies. The bill makes findings. The bill provides for determination of infertility. The bill provides prohibited and permissible limitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-13
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| WV | SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require coverage for newly born children up to the age of 19 for medically necessary congenital anomalies of cleft lip and palate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-13
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| WV | SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add certain compounds to the schedule I, II, and IV controlled substances list and remove a substance from the schedule V list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-13
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| WV | SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a $5,000 tax credit for nurses to West Virginia personal income tax liabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-13
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| WV | SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the treatment of persistent symptoms of hypothyroidism as a similar but distinguishable disease from hypothyroidism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
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| WV | SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Chemical Abortion Prohibition Act. The bill creates the offense. The bill provides no liability to the patient. The bill provides a rule of construction regarding ectopic pregnancy. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-12
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| WV | SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-01-12
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| WV | SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of lit tobacco products in a motor vehicle while individuals 16 years of age or under are present. The bill also provides that the misdemeanor offense is a secondary offense that may only be charged if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-11
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