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WVHB5210Intro
25%
Relating to voluntary private school immunization
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2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5620Intro
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Relating to authorizing the installation of monitors in long-term care facilities
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2024-02-12
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee
WVHB5564Intro
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Providing that small format, micro hospitals are exempt from certificate of need review
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2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5558Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide management agencies receiving funds from the West Virginia Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program the ability, in coordination with the Bureau for Public Health, to promulgate rules requirements, and proce...
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2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB739Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to include postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders in existing public health programs.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5543Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to describe the process of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder.
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2024-02-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB735Intro
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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.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB5552Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require medical professionals to report to the Bureau for Public Health all injuries and side effects from vaccines. And requiring the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to produce an annual report for the Leg...
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2024-02-09
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB719Intro
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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...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5521Intro
25%
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that no law may require a person to receive or use a medical product and to ensure that there will be no penalties associated with refusing the medical product or refusing to disclose whether the product has been...
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2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5524Intro
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The purpose of this bill relates generally to regulating and restricting the shipment and receipt of abortion-inducing drugs and abortion-related paraphernalia. The bill ensures compliance with 18 U.S.C. §1461--1462. The bill establishes a private...
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2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB472Intro
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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.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVSB514Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee
WVSB572Intro
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.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee
WVHB5508Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide that the West Virginia Racing Commission annually transfer $8,000,000 from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund to the Fire Protection Fund and the Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Train...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
WVSB693Intro
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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 ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5512Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the express consent of a parent or guardian to conduct a genetic screening of a newborn infant, to retain blood samples from the infant, and to retain and share results of the genetic screening of the infant.
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2024-02-07
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5096Engross
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The purpose of this bill is to permit public service districts to include notices of alleged federal and state violations in one publication.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVHB5481Intro
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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.
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2024-02-06
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB671Intro
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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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4595Engross
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The purpose of this bill is to update the authority of LOCHHRA.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB4868Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from 4 years to 2 years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, to reduce the certification renewal fees to...
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2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5079Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a refund process for payers of substance abuse programs when the individual seeking treatment leaves early, or otherwise does not complete the program.
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5239Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a licensure procedure for recovery residence/ residential substance use disorder service programs. The bill defines terms; establishes licensure application process for substance use disorder service programs and...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5408Intro
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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...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB4908Engross
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The purpose of this bill is to permit government agencies to contract with a West Virginia public health institute.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4983Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to fund the Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative.
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2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee
WVHB5394Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for the sale of e-cigarettes, vapes, or cartridges to anyone under 18 years of age, making it a misdemeanor and increasing the fines and penalties for the employee and business that sells these items ...
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2024-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5365Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require municipal/public water utilities and public service districts shall set aside funds to ensure the delivery of free bottled water when normal water service is disrupted.
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2024-01-30
To House Political Subdivisions Committee
WVHB5372Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5284Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove personal care from the Certificate of Need requirements.
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2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5303Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to define neighborhood hospitals and provide an exemption for neighborhood hospitals, ambulatory health care facilities, and ambulatory surgical facilities from requiring a certificate of need.
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2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5335Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to compulsory immunization and when a child is exempt.
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2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5336Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide for school related immunization notifications.
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2024-01-29
To House Education Committee
WVHB5274Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require information to be provided orally to all patients in order for the patient to give informed consent knowing all potential outcomes for all medical tests, prescriptions, and treatments; providing a short title; d...
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2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB410Intro
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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.
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2024-01-26
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading
WVHB5249Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to prohibit vaccine mandates for certain schools in this state. The bill acknowledges that student athletes must still adhere to certain guidelines.
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2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5209Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
WVSB566Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB567Intro
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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.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB5211Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide parents the freedom to decide whether to have their children vaccinated, to prohibit vaccine mandates as a condition to admission to schools, and to ensure that prior to vaccination that parents receive informat...
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2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4620Engross
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The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that a local county health department issue a food handler permit or card and to provide that food handlers must follow regulations issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration for foo...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5073Intro
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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...
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5110Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide guidelines for the collection, storage, and protection of privacy with concern to genetic material and information.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB545Intro
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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 ...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee
WVHB5160Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition of adding more licensed substance abuse treatment beds in counties who currently have more than 250 substance abuse treatment beds.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5204Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to develop a program to reimburse emergency medical services for transport and treatment in place.
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2024-01-25
To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services Committee
WVHB5106Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to permit a religious exemption to compulsory school immunizations.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5155Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require recovery residences to be certified if such residences receive funding from the state.
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2024-01-25
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee
WVHB5143Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to allow for religious exemptions of vaccine requirements in primary and secondary schools.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
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