| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB4233 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require birth certificates issued in this state to include the gender of the child at birth and prohibit use of the term "non-binary" on birth certificates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 217, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4376 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that a smoke evacuation system is in place to protect medical personnel during any medical treatment where there could be surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 218, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4594 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to extend the foster care managed care contract.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 166, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4431 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the authority of the Chief Medical Examiner to permit cremation of unidentified remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4274 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the Department of Health and Human Resources.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4667 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit harm reduction programs in West Virginia to distribute any smoking devices as part of the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 220, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4756 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 221, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4874 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to update the composition, authority and responsibilities of the Fatality and Mortality Review Team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4911 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit the sale of raw milk in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 6, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4951 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 114, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4975 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create an information sharing child welfare system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 48, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5017 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to make it easier for food trucks to travel from county to county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 222, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5084 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that a valid driver's license, state identification card, or military identification card be presented to verify the minimum age of eighteen for the purchase or acceptance of tobacco related products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 223, 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4956 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4320 | Engross
50% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Senate requests House to concur |
| 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 | HB5002 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require that state-owned rest areas and welcome centers built on or after January 1, 2025, provide at least one diaper changing stations in both male and female restrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | HB4313 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | HB5254 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the Supreme Court of Appeals to employ full-time mental hygiene commissioners with statewide jurisdiction to conduct mental hygiene proceedings in designated regions. The bill also creates a new system of temporar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Finance |
| WV | HB4408 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the development of a specialized intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5192 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Pharmacy to create rules relating to the practice of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5241 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Insurance Commissioner to audit claims under the Public Employees Insurance Act related to post-traumatic stress syndrome disorder PTSD claims for evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for first responders; c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5340 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage to not prioritize the use of an opioid over a nonopioid drug for the treatment of pain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| 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 | HB5685 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5062 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate in cases of child neglect or abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5530 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require hospital to disclose price and fee information for certain hospital services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5248 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to consolidate and update the behavioral health center licensing provisions and requirements. This update would separate behavioral health centers based on treatment settings, residential or non-residential. This division ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance 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 |
