| WV | HB5462 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify limitations on mine subsidence insurance recovery limits.
[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 | SB556 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify the priority of insurance coverage for persons operating a vehicle for the purpose of test driving or loaned out by the seller of a vehicle to be consistent with federal law governing insurance coverage for renta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB645 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit out-of-network emergency medical services agencies from balance billing a covered enrollee in a health insurance plan for ground ambulance services. The bill establishes the minimum payment to be made by an ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - 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 | HB5004 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide health coverage for PANS/PANDAS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB5527 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize wellness reimbursement plans that are self-insured medical plans or wellness integrated medical plan expense reimbursement plans to be licensed in this state by the Insurance Commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal |
| WV | HB5521 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create application, licensure, and examination requirements for public adjusters and to create standards of conduct which govern public adjusters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB151 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make life insurance cash value exempt when calculating eligibility for Medicaid
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
On 2nd reading, rereferred to Health and Human Resources |
| WV | HB5569 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reinstate the discount on Public Employees Insurance for retired firefighters hired after 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5661 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase Medicaid dental provider reimbursement rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Markup Discussion |
| WV | SB1079 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow political subdivisions pay premium payments to PEIA by credit card or state purchasing card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1019 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB4760 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to improve health, reduce health care usage and costs and help prevent disease through nutritional wellness and prevention measures and allow for nonpharmacological alternatives to enrollees who choose them. The bill requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB969 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide county boards of education with the option of seeking insurance coverage from licensed insurance carriers, in addition to the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5664 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the West Virginia CARES Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5365 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the authority of PEIA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5505 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase minimum liability insurance coverage requirements for motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5608 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a person's credit history in certain insurance transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5379 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require payment by insurers directly to out-of-network emergency medical services agencies and promptly pay clean claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB907 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB5392 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "West Virginia Public Adjuster Professional Standards Reform Act." The bill providing a title. The bill creates the application for licensure. The bill details the public adjuster and insured contract require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4781 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide insurance coverage for laser hair removal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB5102 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB5349 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB822 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB5263 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit the use of a credit score to banking institution credit scoring for casualty insurance rate filings. The bill prohibits the use of credit scoring as a consideration in calculating insurance rates in homeowners or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5185 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide easier access to contraceptives and sterilization services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5062 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to improve maternity and infant care by creating the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5141 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies. The bill makes findings. The bill provides for determination of infertility. The bill provides prohibited and permissible limitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5109 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the duties and definition of pharmacy benefits management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5122 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Insurance Medicaid" Buy-In Program. The bill requires the Department of Human Services to develop and administer the Insurance" Medicaid" Buy-In Plan. The bill creates the Health Care Affordability and Acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5149 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board; provide definitions; provide for the creation of a Board and the composition, compensation, and duties associated with the Board; provide for the creati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB196 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the minimum amount of insurance that county boards of education must maintain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5006 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that secondary sources are not the law and public policy of West Virginia in certain instances; and permitting the use of certified questions on issues of first impression in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4117 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit out-of-network emergency medical services agencies from balance billing a covered enrollee in a health insurance plan for ground ambulance services. The bill establishes the minimum payment to be made by an ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4472 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that insurance policies covering commercial or industrial real property may be underwritten for any amount agreed-upon by the parties, even if that amount is less than the replacement cost value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4733 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate coverage for breastfeeding and lactation consultant services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4810 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require transparency of dental health care insurance products. The bill requires annual reporting of the medical loss ratio with the Insurance Commissioner. The bill sets forth standards for the methods by which a denta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB661 | Intro
25% | Clarifying commercial real property insurance policies
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB660 | Intro
25% | Relating to spousal coverage under PEIA
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4877 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the priority of insurance coverage for persons operating a vehicle for the purpose of test driving or loaned out by the seller of a vehicle to be consistent with federal law governing insurance coverage for renta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4840 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt federally qualified health centers from having to obtain a prior authorization for behavioral health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-27
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB518 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4783 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to providing equal share of funds from the fire and casualty premium tax to the departments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4747 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4724 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to cap insurance copayments for certain services at $500 a year for insureds who are terminally ill until death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4627 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free preventative cancer screening for professional firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
