| WV | HB4909 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Health Care Authority and the certificate of need. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22 On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB4797 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4002 | 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] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5581 | Intro
Sine Die | Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5556 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Services Act [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5532 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Safe For Kids Act, provide definitions, prohibit addictive feeds, create time controls, create age flags, ensure nondiscrimination, provide for rulemaking authority, provide the scope of the article, and prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5526 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program to provide legal services, advice, and representation to parents who are facing legal issues that may otherwise result in the removal of their child or children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4798 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to inform a caretaker of his or her rights at the initial point of contact during a child protective investigation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5063 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the time to terminate a foster care arrangement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5409 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to limit the number of improvement periods a parent may have per child or actions in abuse and neglect proceedings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4796 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the removal or termination of parental rights of person who is participating in MAT or taking prescribed medications. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5398 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to establishing a drug testing program for adults who apply to serve as foster parents, kinship parents, or caregivers to displaced children in the legal custody of the Department of Human Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5330 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to notify the county school superintendent and the local board of education president of the public school system where a child attends of any pending child protective service in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5256 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set maximum standards for child care ratios at child care centers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5181 | 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] | 2024-01-25 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5028 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that final orders be prepared and signed within 10 days of the disposition hearing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5026 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to relates to adoption and legal guardianship proceedings arising from abuse or neglect proceeding; requiring department pay attorney's fees for representing adoptive parents; providing process for adoption of juveniles re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5036 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4923 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish parental requirements regarding gender reassignment surgery or gender altering medications for minor children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4897 | Intro
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] | 2024-01-18 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4781 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for maintainance and funding all juvenile group homes in this state, restoring, repairing, and staffing the West Virginia Children's Home in Randolph County, requiring reports on the needs for each facility, and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4420 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to redefining neglect to allow a parenting style that focuses on allowing children a certain amount of independence, referred to as "free range parenting," and establishing that activity is not considered neglect. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4560 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize family courts to certify a juvenile to the jurisdiction of a circuit court for proceedings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4539 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4430 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the ability of a Bureau of Social Services worker to file a grievance if that person has elected to enter the merit based system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4417 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have social workers named for each elementary, middle school and junior high school in the state who are to be available to teachers, principals and other school staff upon request, to help improve or maintain school at... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4451 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require an agreement concerning subsidized adoption be required to provide for direct payment by the Department of Health and Human Resources the attorney's fees of the adoptive parent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4562 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to specify the direct payment of adoption attorney fees and prohibit direct referrals. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4509 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have social workers identified for each elementary, middle school, junior high school, and high school in the state who are to be available to teachers, principals, and other school staff upon request, to help improve o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4585 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for individuals who provide respite care. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4386 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for Child Protective Services expungement in certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4189 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a court to verify that before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home, that if a parent is participating in a medication-assisted treatment program he or she shall be successfully f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4211 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish limitation on law-enforcement officers conducting custodial interrogations of a child with certain exceptions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4219 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require child subsidies shall be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4447 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Responsible Fatherhood Act; establishing purpose; requiring DHHR to contract with non-profit to create initiative to promote responsible fatherhood; provide certain services directed at fathers; establishi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4180 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Juvenile Justice Reform Oversight Committee to recommend averted costs reinvestment; create a juvenile justice account and provide its purpose, funding, and disbursements; require new data to be collected an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary Committee |