| WV | SB170 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to include three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters and provides that the presumption for the three types of cancer expires July 1, 2027, unless extended by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 270, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB300 | Pass | Relating to the organization of the Office of the Inspector General
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 208, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB269 | Pass | Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB378 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 209, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB325 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies. The bill provides for penalties. Finally, the bill provides for preemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 93, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB451 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require all prosecutors to undergo training prior to performing his or her duties; and require the West Virginia prosecuting attorneys Institute to conduct mandatory training for all prosecuting attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 64, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB477 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of personal information on the internet, and to create penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 213, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB475 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the requirements for recovery residences. The proposed bill sets forth a data collection process and requires rulemaking related to data collection. The proposed bill adds a process for suspension or revocation re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB439 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to Authorize certain 911 personnel to be members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB318 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is modify the process of when parent rights have been terminated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 92, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB539 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Cold Case database, explaining the types of cases to be included in the Cold Case database, explaining the state agency developing the Cold Case database, delineating the information that must be provided for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 232, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB533 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish that an emergency medical services agency may triage and transport a patient to an alternative destination in this state or treat in place if the ambulance service is coordinating the care of the patient throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 214, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB544 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB668 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine a person may purchase annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 58, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB667 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to the creation of the Physicians Licensure Compact. The bill provides for a purpose. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for state participation in the compact. The bill creates the compact privilege. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 197, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB681 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revision the mandatory service obligation for the National Guard doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine degree program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 157, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB624 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize cancellation of voter registration records for individuals no longer West Virginia citizens and have obtained a driver's license in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 123, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB190 | Pass | Modifying definition of sexual contact
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 82, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB714 | Veto | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the licensing of physicians and the transition of the duties and functions of the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to the West Virginia Board of Medicine, effective January 1, 2025. The bill ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB785 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add the Foster care ombudsman as a person to have access to records concerning a child or juvenile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB377 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to permit physicians to be exempt from specified traffic laws when responding to an emergency call. This proposed bill provides that the physician must continue to exercise due care and provides for rulemaking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB717 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the sale of tobacco product to individuals younger than 21 years of age. The bill contains penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB442 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB575 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth provisions for genetic and gestational surrogacy. The bill requires an agreement, sets forth requirements to enter the agreement, required terms, the process of the agreement, and the content of the agreement....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB815 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services and the Bureau for Social Services to make a rate study, analysis of workforce capacity, and the impact on children of the current reimbursement levels for child placement agenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB765 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to designate the Forensic Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center as a backup site for the division's DNA databank and database to function in the event of a natural disaster or statewide dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB743 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth criteria for the Bureau for Medical Services to follow regarding anti-obesity medications and to require reporting of outcomes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB444 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that health insurance coverage for emergency services when a prudent layperson acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition existed includes prehospital screening and stabilization o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB831 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure financial or product assistance are available for a prescription drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB796 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give a preference to West Virginia providers of medical services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB609 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify DSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when a member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.This bill wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB608 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify EMSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when the member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB788 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prioritize providing medical services to West Virginia Medicaid beneficiaries within West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB351 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of small arms to include the receiver or frame for purposes of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB556 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is modify the way that DNA that is maintained for law-enforcement purposes in West Virginia. The bill provides updates for the policy of maintaining DNA. The bill requires DNA testing of all persons convicted of felonies and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Referred to Finance |
| WV | SB514 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the lung cancer prevention and education act. It covers lung cancers screenings via a low-dose computed tomography based upon financial eligibility and medical eligibility set forth in the bill. The bill creates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB474 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the Critical Incident Review Team, to set forth its responsibilities, provide access to information and to set forth confidentiality provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB572 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a student loan repayment program for forensic pathology loan repayment program and to establish the salary requirements for a physician serving as a forensic pathologist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB715 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop the Bleed Act to require implementation of the act in county schools and to permit private donations and funding by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB671 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to tobacco products. The bill defines terms. The bill increases the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes. The bill allocates revenue to the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention. The bill rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB320 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirements for wineries to serve food in order to serve and sell wine by the glass or bottle; to allow the service of wine in glasses and sale of wine in bottles and glasses for consumption on winery proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB626 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a program to reward citizens for information on drug trafficking; to create an excise tax on opioid antagonists and test strips; create a special revenue account; to establish a program for providing rewards for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB402 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the USCCA to provide concealed carry classes in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB604 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act and tax credit allowed and credit limitations for short line railroad companies in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB196 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to update and correct sections of the West Virginia Rail Trails Program. The bill provides for updated definitions to include a definition of "rail with trail." Finally, the bill addresses railroad liability and safety ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB426 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia Recreational Trails Development Act, provide definitions, require the Department of Transportation to prioritize design and construction of recreational trails in the state, assign duties to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB357 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the scope of work of a dental hygienist to permit the dental hygienist to provide tobacco cessation education to patients to improve overall dental health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB502 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to combat absenteeism among educators by providing a cash bonus in exchange for unused days of personal leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB576 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require child- care providers to be paid by enrollment rather than attendance of the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
