West Virginia Senator Laura Wakim Chapman [R]

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WVSB292Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require doula services to be covered by Medicaid and PEIA and to increase reimbursement rates.
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2025-03-25
On 2nd reading
WVSB464Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the commissioner to issue special plates to recipients of the distinguished Medal of Valor awarded under §9-32-1 of this code to firefighters, law-enforcement officers, and emergency medical services person...
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2025-03-25
On 2nd reading
WVSB526Intro
25%
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.
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2025-03-25
On 2nd reading
WVSB1Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to require all paving projects to be approved by the Public Service Commission in order to prevent the digging up of newly paved roads for planned utility projects.
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2025-03-24
Ordered to House
WVSB291PassThe purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe for registration from annually to biennially.
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2025-03-24
Approved by Governor 3/24/2025
WVSB500Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to transfer audit authority for volunteer fire companies to the West Virginia Legislative Auditor.
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2025-03-24
To House Government Organization Committee
WVSB710Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to create a telehealth practice act for dentists.
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2025-03-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB886Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to ensure child in foster care or a kinship placement are made aware of his or her rights.
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2025-03-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB887Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to create an intermediate conservatorship or guardianship process prior to an individual being involuntarily committed.
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2025-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB932Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to combine the offices of the Legislative Auditor and the State Auditor.
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2025-03-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVSB913Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to train its personnel to screen incoming and incarcerated individuals for brain injury with a screening process designed in conjunction with a study group. The bil...
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2025-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB905Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to provide payment parity for mental health care delivered by non-physicians for identical services provided by physicians.
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2025-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB8Enroll
75%
The purpose of this bill is to permit the installation of newborn safety devices at emergency service medical facilities, police departments, or sheriff's detachments that have been designated as safe-surrender sites and providing conditions for the ...
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2025-03-21
To Governor 3/20/2025 - House Journal
WVSB450Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Guardian Act. The bill allows the county school boards to contract for participation in the program. The bill defines terms. The bill sets out the authority of independent contractors partici...
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2025-03-21
To House Education Committee
WVSB817Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to license facilities treating youth in West Virginia.
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2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSR39PassDesignating March as Kidney Disease Awareness Month
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2025-03-21
Completed legislative action
WVSB865Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to ensure that the best interest of the child is paramount in decisions made by specific state entities or individuals. It provides the factors that must be considered when assessing the child's best interests.
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2025-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB719Engross
50%
The purpose of this bill is to change the age a minor can consent to general health care decisions and services with parental notice; as well as sexually transmitted disease, alcohol addiction, and controlled substance use addiction care and treatmen...
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2025-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee
WVSB832Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the administration of cost-sharing calculations, define terms, and setting an effective date.
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2025-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB824Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to amend the process by the Performance Evaluation and Research Division of the Office of the Legislative Auditor relating to the enactment or modification of an occupational or professional regulation; it undertakes to de...
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2025-03-20
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVSB833Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to exclude pharmaceutical medication from the prior authorization gold card process.
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2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB821Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require local child protective workers to use body worn camera while conducting abuse and neglect investigations.
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2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB851Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the Child Protection Investigations Reform Act; and require notification to a person accused of child abuse or neglect of the person's rights in connection with an investigation conducted by the Department of Hum...
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2025-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB822Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to provide child welfare workers with mobile technology that will permit them to conduct investigations and create a digital record. This will upload to the system automatically ...
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2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB702Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau for Family Assistance to increase the base rate paid to childcare providers and to study a performance-based model of incentive payments to increase quality and to provide reporting.
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2025-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB697Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish a tax credit for eligible family members providing caregiver services to an eligible family member.
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2025-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSR35PassRecognizing WV Mothers and Babies Support Program for its outstanding achievements
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2025-03-19
Completed legislative action
WVSB813Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to extend the timeframe for the department to identify relatives and fictive kin of the child.
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2025-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB811Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the Child Care Subsidy Pilot Program.
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2025-03-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB804Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to reform the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission.
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2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee
WVSB760Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to modify the rate of tax due on a licensee's adjusted gross receipts.
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2025-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB759Intro
25%
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...
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2025-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSR22PassRecognizing 175th anniversary of Wheeling Hospital
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2025-03-12
Completed legislative action
WVSB263Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to modify the use of criminal records in determinations to allow an individual to practice a profession or occupation, by a board, authority, or other agency authorized to issue licenses, certifications, registrations, or ...
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2025-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB604Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to notify the Public Service Commission that a utility customer is eligible for discounts on their utility bills and to require the Commission to order that the utility apply the...
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2025-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB648Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to require courts and administrative officers to interpret statutes, regulations, and regulatory documents anew and not defer to the agency's interpretation of the rule or statute.
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2025-03-03
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVSB163Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to include postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders in existing public health programs.
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2025-02-27
Referred to Finance
WVSB169Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to correlate the Medicaid personal needs allowance with the state poverty index.
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2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSR13PassMemorializing life of Wanda Porterfield Casto
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2025-02-26
Completed legislative action
WVSB434Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create Alyssa's Law which requires each public school building to be equipped with at least one panic alarm for use in a school security emergency; and requires the panic alarm to be directly linked to local law enforce...
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2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSR3PassCreating Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health
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2025-02-25
Completed legislative action
WVSB429Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax credit for 50% of the cost of a lifetime hunting, trapping, and fishing license for veterans who have been honorably discharged from the armed services and who are certified by the Veterans Administration ...
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2025-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB158Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to modify eligibility and qualifications to serve as an appointed member of the state board of education, by prohibiting certain political and other activities and specifically permitting certain political activities
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2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB430Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
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2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSJR8Intro
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The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to provide that in all elections held in West Virginia only citizens of the state who are citizens of the United States are qualified to vote.
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2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB556Intro
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.
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2025-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB173Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require a hotel or public lodging establishment to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.
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2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB286Intro
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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.
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2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB28Intro
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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.
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2025-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSR5PassDesignating February 14, 2025, as National Organ Donor Day at Legislature
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2025-02-14
Completed legislative action
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