| WV | HB5430 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to is to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and state pharmacy purchasing by requiring an annual pharmacy dispensing fee study, limiting amounts charged by pharmacy benefit managers, prohibiting certain pharmacy benefit ma...
[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 | HB4089 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require health insurers to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems for the preservation of hair during cancer chemotherapy treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal |
| WV | HB4965 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow a patient who has received prior authorization from the Public Employees Insurance Agency for treatment of a medical condition to receive an alternative covered treatment for the same condition without additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/31/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB997 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain vested staff members participating in the Public Employees Retirement System employed by Hopemont Hospital, Jackie Withrow Hospital, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center, and Lakin State Hospital to begin d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB1038 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a 15 percent salary adjustment to Administrative Law Judge 1 and Administrative Law Judge 2 positions in WorkForce West Virginia Board of Review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4477 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide the Attorney General with prosecutorial power over county and municipal elected officials in certain circumstances The bill also requires the Secretary of State to refer potential election fraud to the Attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4982 | Pass | Relating generally to the reestablishment of a statewide Healthy Lifestyles program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Approved by Governor 2/28/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB1082 | N/A
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the ability of the Public Employees Insurance Agency to investigate and prosecute fraud..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | SB757 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add language that gives vendors a 10-day grace period to provide bid bond documentation after the bid closing to address bonding errors in otherwise qualified bids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of 62 with eight or more years of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require coverage for newly born children up to the age of 19 for medically necessary congenital anomalies of cleft lip and palate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB989 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the current children's health insurance advisory board; modify the membership of the Medical Services Fund Advisory Council to comply with 42 CFR §431.12; include the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain contracted counsel for executive agencies to purchase years of service in the Public Employees Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the oversight by the Attorney General of a political subdivision's hiring of a private attorney under a contingency fee legal arrangement or contract to sue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5633 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to extend the expiration date on a pilot administered by the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs to promote public health through comprehensive community development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5365 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to update the authority of PEIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5619 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the governing authority of any public property, public buildings and any building, designed, constructed and maintained with public funds from the state, a county or a municipality, if funds are available in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5549 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create Citizen and State Accountability Act. The bill authorizes departments, agencies, and officials of state or local government to apply for major and minor grant agreements. The bill establishes the requirements for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5571 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a pay equity salary adjustment for non-uniformed employees of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5553 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit PEIA and the Department of Human Services to participate in federal prescription drug pricing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB938 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, and the state health officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB633 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to the West Virginia Commission on Holocaust Education. The bill establishes legislative findings. The bill modernizes commission membership in light of the passing of Holocaust survivors and second-generation witness...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4769 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Governor to establish crisis preparedness plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5433 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health insurance coverage of hearing aids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB907 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to is to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and state pharmacy purchasing by requiring an annual pharmacy dispensing fee study, limiting amounts charged by pharmacy benefit managers, prohibiting certain pharmacy benefit ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5071 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require health benefit plan coverage for medically necessary dental procedures that result from cancer treatment; create the Oral Health and Cancer Rights Act; explain the scope of procedures covered as a result of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5102 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require habilitative speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require PEIA, Medicaid, and other health insurance providers to cover for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB891 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the oversight by the Attorney General of a political subdivision's hiring of a private attorney under a contingency fee legal arrangement or contract to sue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5357 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for removal or cutting of trees on state owned or leased property or rights-of-way threatening structures on private property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Energy and Public Works Committee |
| WV | SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Second Amendment Preservation Act. The bill states a short title; provides legislative findings; prohibits regulation of intrastate firearm sales and transfers; provides for civil and criminal penalties; auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5360 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System who are at least 60 years of age and that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each two days of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5349 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Employees Insurance Agency and other health insurance providers provide mental health parity between behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorders, and medical and surgical procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the Herbert Henderson Office on Minority Affairs, to remove the placement of the director of the Herbert Henderson Office on Minority Affairs from the West Virginia Semiquincentennial Commission and the West V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to protect state and local government systems and data, and their ability to protect citizens' data and access to government systems, from cyberattacks and surveillance by adverse foreign interests by prohibiting the use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB822 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of episode of care and the definition of prior authorization; to revise the requirements for the gold card process to include a hospital, or a department within a hospital; to extend the timeframe ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5241 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions required relating to breast cancer screenings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4770 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish regulations governing the use of artificial intelligence in the administration and delivery of mental health care in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5158 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Men's Equality Act requiring 100 percent coverage under the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance plan for voluntary male sterilization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5150 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Secure Choice trust as an instrumentality of the state to hold employee payroll deductions, contributions, and earnings on the contributions and to establish a Secure Choice administrative fund in the state tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5140 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include certain employers with two or more employees subject to actions for discriminatory practices before the human rights commission; to include individual independent contractors in the definition of "employee"; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5077 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Insurance Coverage Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5145 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary portable insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow accrued annual or sick leave to be used for retirement service credit in the Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5026 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Unfunded Federal Mandate Accountability Act. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill sets forth definitions. The bill provides for the Governor's authority. The bill sets forth a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5052 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a one-time cost-of-living supplement to retirement benefits of under $75,000 a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4920 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Second Amendment Preservation Act. The bill states a short title; provides legislative findings; prohibits regulation of intrastate firearm sales and transfers; provides for civil and criminal penalties; auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to spousal coverage under PEIA
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
