| WV | SB2028 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit an opioid treatment program to be developed if part of a clinical trial, approved by an institutional review board. The bill sets forth the opioid treatment program services to be developed and provides for a set...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-29
Chapter 32, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB2008 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to further the process of West Virginia becoming an Agreement State with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-06
On 2nd reading to Rules |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB445 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from four years to two years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and to reduce the certification renewal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 211, 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 | SB504 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify elements of a felony offense pertaining to when a school employee or volunteer engages in sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 83, 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 | SB602 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to develop cardiac emergency response plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 106, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB631 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit municipalities from shutting off a user's water for nonpayment of a stormwater fee. The bill allows for municipalities to impose a lien to obtain payment but prohibits municipalities from shutting off services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 215, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB755 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide safeguards when retail sellers engage in online delivery sales of tobacco products, tobacco-derived products, or vapor products via online certification and to further permit retail sellers to engage third party...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB352 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Unborn Child Protection act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill creates a process of informed consent. The bill provides for printed information. The bill provides for the creation of an Internet web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB601 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to ensure increase the amount of permitted residential substance use disorder treatment beds in certain West Virginia Counties, and prohibit expansion of beds, and payment for Medicaid services rendered at certain faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB819 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Health from promulgating rules that require public water systems or businesses to have backflow preventers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB717 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB575 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB848 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a special revenue account within the State Treasury designated the "Office of the Inspector General Reimbursement Fund" within Department of Health, to reimburse the Department of Health for eligible costs attrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB825 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth from conversion therapy, also known as sexual orientation change efforts or reparative therapy. The bill makes legislative findings and sets forth a purpose. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB620 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide pregnancy help centers greater flexibility to receive funding for items such as capital expenditures and training. Currently, the funding is limited to a fee per service arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is regarding water quality affecting residents of the state; establishing findings; requiring Department of Health evaluate whether public water sources contain levels of contaminants making them unsafe; providing water filtr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB787 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish a limit for fees charged for medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Medicaid state plan amendment. The bill provides that the Bureau of Medical Services shall seek a state plan amendment. The bill provides that the state plan amendment provides for cost sharing and/or premiums ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders in existing public health programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB735 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use or sale of abortifacients and to enact criminal penalties and permit private causes of action for supplying abortifacients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB719 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 without requiring a child to sign a document permitting his or her parents to see the records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Chronic Weight Management Task Force to study obesity and make report of its findings to the Joint Committee on Health. The bill sets forth the members of the task force and provides for administrative support ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all state buildings to provide a private room in which mothers can express milk or nurse their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB566 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB567 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide immunity from liability for hospitals that have established a hospital police department if a loss or claim results from the failure to provide police protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the E-cigarette and E-cigarette Liquid Directory. The bill requires all manufacturers to obtain marketing authorization from the United States Food and Drug Administration before engaging in consumer sales in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the biological sex to be limited to male or female and to require that nonbinary birth certificates not be issued. The bill also provides circumstances when an amended birth certificate may be issued to change g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB520 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to notify parents when prescribing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB492 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease Control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is amend the definition of "recovery residence", adding a new definition for "recovery support services"; and to require that the Department of Health contract with certifying agencies for a voluntary certification program fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography.The bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session, by the Joint Committee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of prescription nonopioid medications. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to make information available to the public about the availability of such treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Substance Abuse Intervention Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for involuntary treatment for a substance use disorder and sets forth the rights of a patient. The bill establishes cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Food Allergen Awareness Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB412 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend medical exemptions to state vaccination laws. The bill requires the physician submitting certification for medical exemption be licensed in West Virginia. The bill requires the physician submitting medical exempti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
