| WV | HB4864 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-23
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| 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 | HB5021 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update cardiac response plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5255 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5441 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 and setting the threshold at $50,000 for public service districts, and public works projects under the Regional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| 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 | 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 | HB4962 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to relating to hotel and motel housing vouchers programs; prohibiting city or town from requiring hotel or motel participation in housing voucher programs; prohibiting county from requiring hotel or motel participatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary 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 | HB5682 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council and establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund, and commissioning studies and reports from the board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5665 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons from erecting, maintaining, funding, leasing, or otherwise facilitating billboard advertisements or statements that display messages concerning the availability of abortions in bordering states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5622 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to gender change in government documents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5210 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to voluntary private school immunization
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5620 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to authorizing the installation of monitors in long-term care facilities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB5564 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that small format, micro hospitals are exempt from certificate of need review
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5558 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & 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 | HB5543 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to describe the process of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health & 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 | HB5552 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health & Human Resources 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 | HB5521 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5524 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & 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 | HB5508 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House 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 | HB5512 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5481 | 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] | 2024-02-06
To House Health & 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 | HB4868 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5079 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5239 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5408 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4983 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to fund the Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5394 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5365 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Political Subdivisions Committee |
| WV | HB5372 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5284 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove personal care from the Certificate of Need requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5303 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5335 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to compulsory immunization and when a child is exempt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5336 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for school related immunization notifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5274 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health & 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 | HB5249 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5209 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| 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 |
