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WVHB5163Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to clarify that no law enforcement officer is required to remain with an individual at the hospital while a staff physician or other authorized person evaluates the individual for involuntary hospitalization.
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2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee
WVHB5073Intro
25%
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
WVHB5154Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization.
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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
25%
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
WVHB5141Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require state institutions of higher education universities to accept exemptions to vaccinations in addition to the medical exemptions.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources 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
WVHB5145Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove the hepatitis B vaccine from the vaccines mandated by this state or required for admission to a public, private, and parochial school in this state or a state-regulated child care center.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB560Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5120Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to update definitions and who has access to medical records.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5187Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to remove hormone therapy as a means of medical treatment for minors.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB5166Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain action concerning the distribution of safety-net drugs to contract pharmacies.
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2024-01-25
To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee
WVHB5107Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a personal belief exemption to required immunizations.
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB553Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5149Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to requires persons or entities rendering medical services to patients who were under the age of 18 years at the time of the services to notify these patients after they reach 18years of age to contact the providers of any...
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2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4429Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to exclude drug test strips from the definition of drug paraphernalia, and to specify that the possession, sale, and purchase of drug test strips is not prohibited within West Virginia. The bill was recommended for passage...
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2024-01-24
On 1st reading, House Calendar
WVHB4432Engross
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The purpose of this bill is to update the practice of physician assistants and advanced practice register nurses relating to midlevel practitioners. It permits physician assistants to own a practice, and establishes grounds for discipline or denial o...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4795Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to inform a caretaker of his or her rights at the initial point of contact during a child protective investigation.
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2024-01-24
On 2nd reading, House Calendar
WVHB5061Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Council.
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2024-01-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB510Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Children's Vision Act, requiring school children to have vision examinations.
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2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee
WVHB5041Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to guarantee the right to life to all human beings and to provide definitions.
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2024-01-23
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB520Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
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2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB527Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to notify parents when prescribing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides definitions.
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2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB5036Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
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2024-01-23
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee
WVHB5032Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require health care facilities not exempt from certificates of need to provide health care services to persons who are under the public employees insurance act (PEIA).
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2024-01-23
To House Banking & Insurance Committee
WVHB4433Engross
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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 ...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4743Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require medical professionals to obtain consent for a resident to treat a patient in advance of the appointment or procedure.
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2024-01-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4953Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require informed consent for all pelvic, rectal, and prostate examinations.
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2024-01-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4997Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require habilitative speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering insurance coverage.
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2024-01-22
To House Banking & Insurance Committee
WVSB499Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to permit the care of a patient by telemedicine across state lines.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB498Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to correlate the Medical personal needs allowance with the state poverty index.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4979Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide insurance coverage for GLP-1 class medications with a valid script.
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2024-01-22
To House Banking & Insurance Committee
WVHB4977Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require that public restrooms provide diaper changing stations in both male and female restrooms if these stations are provided at all.
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2024-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee
WVSB505Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
WVHB4937Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide for medical guidelines and information related to breast density.
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2024-01-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4922Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish a cause of action upon violation of prohibition of providing gender reassignment or gender altering medication to a minor.
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2024-01-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4928Intro
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The purpose of this bill is remove the licensure requirement for radon mitigation contractors, radon mitigation specialists, and radon testers.
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2024-01-19
To House Government Organization Committee
WVHB4936Intro
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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.
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2024-01-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4929Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place, removing certain penalties, and establishing other penalties for failing to stop a train or other vessel...
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2024-01-19
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4897Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to update the circumstances when a child may be removed from a foster home.
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2024-01-18
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee
WVHB4900Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the Core State Behavioral Health Crisis Services System.
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2024-01-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVHB4914Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish the food waste task force.
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2024-01-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB492Intro
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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.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVSB486Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish insurance provisions that require coverage for annual breast cancer screenings.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee
WVHB4884Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a healthcare provider right to object to certain procedures act with definitions; defining treatments or patients that may be objected to; and providing right to file civil action for damages and injunctive relie...
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2024-01-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
WVSB491Intro
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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...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
WVHB4873Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to legalize the personal use and possession of cannabis by adults; providing for a county option election to allow for the production and sales in that county; providing for regulation by the Bureau of Health; authorizing ...
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2024-01-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee
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