| WV | HB2027 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the circumstances when a child may be removed from a foster home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3142 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit health benefit plan sponsors to use electronic means of communication unless the covered persons under the plan opt out of such means of communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3092 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure financial or product assistance are available for a prescription drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2377 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require transparency from the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3150 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise, update, and streamline the requirements governing the Medical Student Loan Program and Health Sciences and Mental Health Provider loan repayment programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3343 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add crystalline polymorph psilocybin in the permitted list of distributed and prescribed drugs, if scheduled or descheduled by the Food and Drug Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB3439 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include an option for persons to indicate their choice to become an organ donor when registering to vote or modifying their voter registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to describe the progression of treatment for substance use disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB909 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia physician/medical practitioner provider Medicaid enhancement board to examine the current reimbursement rates paid to outpatient psychiatry and psychology services provided in a licensed beha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB919 | 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] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the Tobacco Products Excise Tax Act; repeal discounts on tax stamps; add a definition of "Electronic smoking device"; increase taxes on tobacco products; provide that 10 percent of the revenue collected be dedicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB859 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to levy a $1 user fee on cigarettes; provide the user fee be directed to support Emergency Medical Services; and create a special revenue fund to receive funds from the created user fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau for Medical Services to make necessary filings and obtain licensures and accreditation by July 1, 2025 and require compliance for these substance use disorder treatment facilities by an earlier date t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB860 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to fund the Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2881 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the number of members in the Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations Unit and provide retired members of the State Police the ability to be part of the unit while establishing requirements to be followed when reem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make life insurance cash value exempt when calculating eligibility for Medicaid
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an exemption as to when a pharmacy benefit manager may not reimburse a pharmacy or pharmacist for a prescription drug or pharmacy service for an amount less than the nation average if certain requirements occur ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB816 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit sales of electronic smoking devices that have not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB811 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Child Care Subsidy Pilot Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to state that the kinship parent, foster parent, and adoptive parent, and their households are not required to be immunized to be considered to take a kinship, foster, or adoptive placement. The bill protects their immuniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to regulate locations, operating requirements, and property standards for smoke shops and vape shops, establishing safe advertising that does not appeal to minors, setting standards for inspections, fines for violations, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB732 | 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; to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make opioid treatment programs unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article, permit an administrative timeframe for the transition of care, require the Office for Health Facilities Licensure and Certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB669 | 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; provides for determination of infertility; provides prohibited and permissible limitations on coverage; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the total number of children allowable for informal family child care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to empower qualified physician assistants and certified nurse practitioners to practice without the supervision of a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the ALS Care Services Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a paid parental leave pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB2047 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB629 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase payment for professional service provided to the West Virginia Birth-to-Three program by therapists and other professionals who are not employed by a state agency by 25 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove exceptions for rape and incest for the current abortion law in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB588 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize production and sale of homemade food items under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB562 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2025 legislative session by the Commission on Interstate Cooperation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB557 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill generally relates to professionals to be licensed by the West Virginia Board of Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB466 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish voluntary vaccinations and eliminate certain compulsory immunization requirements; eliminate vaccine mandates for all citizens of West Virginia; provide immunization information upon request by parents of newb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB467 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set forth requirements for foster child clothing allowances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health benefit plan coverage for medically necessary dental procedures that result from cancer treatment; create the Oral Health and Cancer Rights Act; explain the scope of procedures covered as a result of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB453 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the certificate of need program on January 1, 2026, terminate the West Virginia Health Care Authority, and transfer the assets, and records; abolition of the authority's employment positions and discretion of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create and authorize a state child and child care tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Food Allergen Awareness Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health to allow reimbursement for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for these procedures when the patient is in a residence or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| WV | SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics; and providing for its funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to impose deadlines for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy and to provide a copy of the autopsy report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Fetal Heartbeat Act. The bill prohibits abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. The bill provides exceptions. The bill applies only to intrauterine pregnancies. The bill makes findings. The bill establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require doula services to be covered by Medicaid and PEIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB248 | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
