Bill Text: WV HB4215 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB4215 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4215-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4215
By Delegate Hott
[Introduced January 10, 2024; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then Judiciary]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-3-4d, relating to the prohibition of discrimination based upon the vaccine status of an individual.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3. PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
§16-3-4d. Prohibiting discrimination based upon vaccine status.
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for a healthcare provider to provide lesser or disparate treatment to a patient based upon their vaccination status. A healthcare provider may implement reasonable accommodation measures to protect the safety and health of employees, patients, visitors, and other persons from COVID-19; however, a healthcare provider may not refuse to treat a patient based upon their vaccination status, nor may they provide lesser or disparate treatment to patients based upon that vaccination status.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
