| WV | SB171 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county commissions from adopting any ordinance, rule, license requirement, or other authorization that exceeds state law, rule, or regulation regarding agricultural operations. The bill revokes any ordinance, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| 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 | SB269 | Pass | Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 57, 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 | SB325 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies. The bill provides for penalties. Finally, the bill provides for preemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 93, 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 | 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 | 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 | SB632 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to continue the study group on competency and criminal responsibility, add brain injuries to the subjects to be studied, amend the membership of the study group, establish a steering committee within the study group, setti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 183, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB668 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine a person may purchase annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 58, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB681 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to revision the mandatory service obligation for the National Guard doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine degree program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 157, 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 | SB768 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide exception to the confidentiality of child welfare records to allow the sharing confidential information with law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 47, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB352 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB791 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Medical Services Fund Advisory Council membership requirements, augment its purpose, require that it employ an actuary, require certain actions from the Commissioner for the Bureau for Medical Services, and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB805 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 | SB769 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain medical practices; prohibit medical providers from performing pelvic, prostate, rectal, and breast exams on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specific circumstances; and establish an effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB575 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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 | SB562 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits. The bill defines and expands exemptions. The bill clarifies the Secretary's duties when there is a lack of funding or inability to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB870 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke Act; prohibit a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned entities from prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB672 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require coverage and reimbursement for home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain persons diagnosed with hypertension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB743 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to set forth criteria for the Bureau for Medical Services to follow regarding anti-obesity medications and to require reporting of outcomes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB375 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act". The bill exempts a health care sharing ministry form the state's insurance laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB857 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation and evidenced-based cancer imaging; and providing that this testing is not subject to cost-sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB832 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the option for courts to order services at a higher rate than Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB825 | Intro
25% | 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
50% | 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 | SB796 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give a preference to West Virginia providers of medical services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB795 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit liability for accredited academic hospitals to only the amount of insurance covered by State Board of Risk and Insurance Management, to provide medical professional liability insurance to accredited academic hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB788 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prioritize providing medical services to West Virginia Medicaid beneficiaries within West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB789 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require Medicaid to submit certain proposals with a $3 million or more impact through the rulemaking process, and requiring Medicaid to submit reports regarding program expenditures and recommendations regarding cost co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB793 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require contract terms for managed care contracts with the Bureau for Medical Services; requires the services of a Dental Contractor serving as a dental benefit manager or utilization review agent; requires managed care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB792 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for postpartum healthcare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB776 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB745 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the price of prescription drugs to older West Virginians to the lowest price that drug is available in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB748 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to generally provide for certified professional midwives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB753 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to propose a legislative rule establishing regulations permitting prescription of Schedule 5 (V) drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB739 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB514 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB516 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to determine venue for custodial allocation actions independent of divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB572 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB693 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB684 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to requiring contract terms for managed care contracts with the Bureau for Medical Services; setting the medical loss ratio for managed care organizations contracting with the Bureau for Medical Services; establishing reba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB677 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to improve patient safety in the medical cannabis program by authorizing permitted, regulated medical cannabis processors to manufacture medical cannabis in edible form for dispensing to certified patients in the state; to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
