| WV | HB4354 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to set forth requirements for foster child clothing allowances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | HB4390 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that a kinship parent be paid a subsidy equal to that of a foster parent in specified circumstances and set forth the timeframe for such payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | HB5048 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that foster children awaiting residential placement shall continue to receive education through virtual learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | HB5214 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require parents with abuse and/or neglect claims substantiated against them to be drug tested prior to reunification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | HB5684 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Supreme Court to create program of child protection commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | SB228 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4191 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the tax credit for employers providing child care for employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal |
| WV | HB4022 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the application of the allocation formula for child protective services workers by county, and to set forth what information should be included in the annual report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/14/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4393 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to develop and implement a prevention plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Vetoed by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4364 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to address concurrent juvenile jurisdiction and to allow the transfer of exclusive federal legislative jurisdiction back to the state with respect to juveniles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB4730 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to develop a continuum of services and supports for youth who are preparing to exit foster care or who have aged out of that care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Vetoed by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB744 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the Critical Incident Review Team is under the Office of the Inspector General. The bill has the Office of Inspector General lead the team and prepare the reporting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Vetoed by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5441 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to streamline and simplify the state hiring system of the Division of Personnel. The bill terminates the State Personnel Board, defines the role of the director and the Division of Personnel, transfers to the Division all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4602 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a pilot program to support caseworker administrative tasks with technology and human caseworker aide services to increase the number, frequency and timeliness of caseworker interactions with children and famil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | HB4603 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the process of obtaining and adjudicating a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition.This bill was recommended for introduction by the Joint Committee on Children and Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | HB4749 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to guarantee that foster children age 13 and older are notified of and supported in attending court hearings that affect them, with counsel present and an explanation of the outcome provided afterward.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Approved by Governor 3/13/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4656 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove truancy as a status offense, shift the absenteeism focus from punitive to preventative, and clarify the statutory provisions and procedures for chronic absenteeism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
On 2nd reading, rereferred to Education |
| WV | SB937 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a community-based child welfare system program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5163 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to exempting child-care programs operated by a county board of education exclusively for the children of its employees from certain licensing requirements. The bill also establishes rules to ensure the health, safety,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB540 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require local child protective workers to use body worn camera while conducting abuse and neglect investigations.This bill was recommended for introduction by the Joint Committee on Children and Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4986 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the termination of parental rights upon certain convictions of crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5669 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish Raylee's law which temporarily prohibits authorization of home instruction if there is a pending child abuse or neglect investigation against a custodial parent of guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB986 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the crime of child torture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce & Foster Care Modernization Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4352 | 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] | 2026-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB541 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the West Virginia Code in relation to juvenile abuse and neglect proceedings to require that circuit courts make certain findings of fact and conclusions of law as it relates to the court's orders.This bill was re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB972 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish Raylee's law which temporarily prohibits authorization of home instruction education placement if there is a pending child abuse or neglect investigation against a custodial parent of guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Motion to table previous motion adopted (Roll No. 270) |
| WV | SB1029 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide parents with plain language statements of their rights during a CPS investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB543 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau of Social Service to file its policy manual as a legislative rule.This bill was recommended for introduction by the Joint Committee on Children and Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB795 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a parent, guardian, or custodian to pay for an independent medical evaluation of a child in protective custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a Truancy Pretrial Diversion Program that allows parents, guardians, and custodians of truant children an opportunity to remedy the truancy prior to conviction, allows for additional delays in sentencing to address the underlying tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the renovation and repair of state-owned properties and buildings to expand high-acuity psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and trauma services for children in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5529 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the use of payment incentives and to establish a time frame for payments to child-placing agencies and to foster parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4604 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation of all panel attorneys and guardians ad litem. The bill also creates an assistant guardian ad litem position and outlines what language is required in juvenile abuse and neglect case orders.This bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB763 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require children to be screened for sex trafficking and labor trafficking as they enter foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB1056 | 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] | 2026-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to streamline and simplify the state hiring system of the Division of Personnel. The bill terminates the State Personnel Board, defines the role of the director and the Division of Personnel, transfers to the Division all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1009 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from civil action for persons who are acting in the official scope of the person's duties at a local specialized child's advocacy center based on a recommendation made or an opinion rendered in good fai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4067 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a subsidy for child care services rendered to children of child care program employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5636 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to improve the payment systems of Department of Human Services to ensure prompt payment through the Child Welfare Payment System for socially necessary service providers contracted to provide services through contracts wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5659 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specify requirements for the development of an accurate cost estimation model for the costs of child care in West Virginia, with consideration for program types, age of children served, geographic region, and other fact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5568 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to promote the efficient and effective use of state funds allocated to the Department of Human Services by requiring there be a reasonable nexus between the actual work of the Department and the legal proceedings at issue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5628 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to mitigate the abrupt effect of termination of child care assistance to needy families caused by modest increases in family income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5555 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require reporting of sexual abuse, sexual assault, or physical abuse to local or county law enforcement agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
IntroduceJudiciary in House |
| WV | HB5498 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the liability of a multidisciplinary team member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5497 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from liability for employees of a child advocacy center for actions taken in participation in the child abuse investigation process or services provided by the child advocacy center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal a section dealing with data collection for the Juvenile Reform Oversight Committee, which terms have expired due to a sunset provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4782 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce & Foster Care Modernization Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5345 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require child-care subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB797 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to develop a continuum of services and supports for youth who are preparing to exit foster care or who have aged out of that care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
