Committee

West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee

Bill Bill Name Progress Referral Date
HB2004 Relating to Vaccine Requirements Dead 02/18/2025
HB2007 Repeal Certificate of Need Process Dead 02/18/2025
HB2016 Relating to the creation of the Comprehensive Services Act Dead 03/18/2025
HB2020 To make any business/individual either selling and/or giving any E-Cigarette (vape or cartridge) to anyone under the age of 18 a misdemeanor. Dead 03/18/2025
HB2027 Relating to changing circumstances for when a child may be removed from a foster home. Dead 02/12/2025
HB2033 Relating to foster or adoption parents sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity Dead 02/12/2025
HB2041 Modifying the time to terminate a foster care arrangement Dead 02/12/2025
HB2046 Require hospitals under Certificate of Need to accept PEIA Dead 02/12/2025
HB2049 Relating to midlevel practitioners Dead 02/12/2025
HB2070 To create the Parents Bill of Rights. Dead 02/12/2025
HB2072 Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection Dead 02/12/2025
HB2073 The West Virginia Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act. Dead 02/12/2025
HB2099 Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators Dead 02/12/2025
HB2125 Relating to defining a newborn safety device Dead 02/12/2025
HB2133 Clarifying that the time limitations provided for filing occupational pneumoconiosis claims do not apply or otherwise limit the ability of a claimant to obtain an evaluation from the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board Dead 02/12/2025
HB2135 To create the Substance Abuse Recovery Tax Credit Dead 02/12/2025
HB2144 Require Substance Use Disorder inpatient providers to offer patients transportation to certain places upon discharge Dead 02/12/2025
HB2151 Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods Dead 02/12/2025
HB2153 Relating to foster or adoption parents sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender idenity Dead 02/12/2025
HB2172 Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/12/2025
HB2173 Relating to requiring a hospital to disclose price and fee information for certain health care services Dead 02/12/2025
HB2174 Relating to the licensure of birthing centers Dead 02/12/2025
HB2175 Relating to the regulation of behavioral health centers Dead 02/12/2025
HB2176 Relating to a biennial capitation rate review to be conducted by the Bureau of Medical Services Dead 02/12/2025
HB2182 Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments. Dead 02/12/2025
HB2209 Relating to controlled substance monitoring; and removing a dispensing prohibition Dead 02/12/2025
HB2212 Limiting the applicability of medical professional liability to certain practices by medical care providers Dead 02/12/2025
HB2239 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public water systems Dead 02/12/2025
HB2240 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to statewide trauma and emergency care system Dead 02/12/2025
HB2241 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fatality and mortality review team Dead 02/12/2025
HB2242 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to vital statistics Dead 02/12/2025
HB2243 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services Dead 02/12/2025
HB2244 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Primary Care Support Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2245 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the general provisions of the Medical Cannabis Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2246 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to growers and processors of the Medical Cannabis Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2247 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to laboratories of the Medical Cannabis Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2248 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to dispensaries of the Medical Cannabis Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2249 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Safe Harbor Letter for the Medical Cannabis Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2250 Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to critical access hospitals Dead 02/12/2025
HB2251 Relating to authorizing the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance Dead 02/12/2025
HB2252 Relating to authorizing the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Recovery Residence Certification and Accreditation Program Dead 02/12/2025
HB2253 Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure Dead 02/12/2025
HB2254 Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Behavioral Health Centers Licensure Dead 02/12/2025
HB2347 The Joel Archer Substance Abuse Intervention Act. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
HB2349 To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone Dead 02/13/2025
HB2350 Relating to enhancing nutrition in the supplemental nutrition assistance program Dead 02/13/2025
HB2352 Modiying Unborn Child Protection Act Dead 02/13/2025
HB2353 Creating a Public Awareness Campaign on the threat of mold in indoor environments Dead 02/13/2025
HB2354 Banning certain products from food in West Virginia Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
HB2358 Relating to postmortem examinations Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/13/2025
HB2367 Relating to foster care Dead 02/13/2025
HB2370 Relating generally to mental health treatment Dead 02/13/2025
HB2372 Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights Dead 02/13/2025
HB2375 Relating to permitting persons to refuse to participate in a irreversible transition surgery Dead 02/13/2025
HB2376 Exempting foster parents from having to show proof of vaccination Dead 02/14/2025
HB2377 Relating to child welfare Dead 02/14/2025
HB2378 Requiring a syringe service program to be affiliated with a local health department Dead 02/14/2025
HB2402 Relating to providing access to medical records; providing access to a minor’s medical record Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/17/2025
HB2403 Remove hormone blockers from transgender code Dead 02/17/2025
HB2406 Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government Dead 02/17/2025
HB2409 Updating cooperative agreements Dead 02/17/2025
HB2410 Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act Dead 02/17/2025
HB2455 Relating to creating the Birth Freedom Act Dead 02/17/2025
HB2457 To require hospitals and or Counties to report costs associated with illegal or undocumented immigrants Dead 02/17/2025
HB2461 Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients Dead 02/17/2025
HB2466 To eliminate the use of puberty blockers for any minor under the age of 18 Dead 02/17/2025
HB2485 Exempt an existing hospital under certificate of need to move their facility up to 10 miles to a new location Dead 02/17/2025
HB2493 Creating the Sound Science in Regulations Act Dead 02/17/2025
HB2503 Relating to necessity allowance Dead 02/17/2025
HB2517 Relating to voluntary private school immunization Dead 02/17/2025
HB2529 Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity Dead 02/18/2025
HB2533 To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement. Dead 02/18/2025
HB2534 Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry Dead 02/18/2025
HB2542 Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits. Dead 02/18/2025
HB2544 To remove restrictions for supervising physicians for Nurse practitioners or physician assistants in West Virginia Dead 02/18/2025
HB2557 Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act Dead 02/18/2025
HB2575 Relating to the establishment of a full-time Dementia Services Director position. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/18/2025
HB2578 Family Child Care Home Registration Requirements Dead 02/18/2025
HB2598 Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement Dead 02/19/2025
HB2606 Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees Dead 02/19/2025
HB2621 Relating to petition for involuntary treatment for drug and alcohol abuse Dead 02/19/2025
HB2623 Abolishing PEIA and the establishing contract healthcare for State Employees Dead 02/19/2025
HB2631 To require all medical providers to orally explain any and all medical treatments and procedures and all possibilities for potential problems or complications or side effects to patients before proceeding with treatments. Dead 02/19/2025
HB2654 To create the Food Safety Act Dead 02/20/2025
HB2672 Requiring all hospitals and medical offices to send a notice to all former or current patients when they turn 18, informing them that if they have had any negative or adverse side effects of a procedure that was performed on them as a child to contact the hospital or office to inform them of the issue Dead 02/20/2025
HB2701 Relating to exempting a neighborhood hospital from certificate of need Dead 02/20/2025
HB2704 Revising the reimbursement and transportation process for post mental health involuntary commitment Dead 02/20/2025
HB2712 Removing abortion exemptions for rape and incest Dead 02/20/2025
HB2729 Vaccine exemption for private, parochial, charter, virtual charter, and remote public schools. Dead 02/21/2025
HB2730 Relating to establishing a pilot program to develop a childcare program where the state, employer, and employee, contribute one-third of the total cost each Dead 02/21/2025
HB2731 Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Dead 02/21/2025
HB2732 Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations Dead 02/21/2025
HB2733 Relating to the Women’s Right to Know Act Dead 02/21/2025
HB2735 Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity Dead 02/21/2025
HB2750 Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures Dead 02/21/2025
HB2765 Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis Dead 02/21/2025
HB2771 Relating to wages of persons with disabilities Dead 02/21/2025
HB2776 Requiring Department of Health to report positive Alpha Gal tests to CDC Dead 02/21/2025
HB2780 Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income Dead 02/21/2025
HB2789 Unconscious patients in the ICU Dead 02/21/2025
HB2796 Relating to codifying the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches Dead 02/21/2025
HB2797 Relating to who may diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable injury or disease under workers compensation Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/21/2025
HB2810 To provide requirements relating to education of students and young adults about unplannned pregnancy options Dead 02/21/2025
HB2820 To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients Dead 02/24/2025
HB2824 Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies Dead 02/24/2025
HB2827 Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs Dead 02/24/2025
HB2831 Creating the Prescription Drug Affordability Board Dead 02/24/2025
HB2842 Establish Food Waste Task Force Dead 02/24/2025
HB2853 Establishing the right to contraception Dead 02/24/2025
HB2854 Removing certain drugs from schedule one Dead 02/24/2025
HB2859 MAHA - Menstrual Labeling Act Dead 02/24/2025
HB2861 Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Insurance Coverage Protection Act Dead 02/24/2025
HB2880 Relating to parent resource navigators Signed/Enacted/Adopted 02/24/2025
HB2883 Relating to the creation of an ENDS product directory Dead 02/24/2025
HB2912 To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity Dead 02/24/2025
HB2918 Men’s Equality Act Dead 02/24/2025
HB2934 Housing assistance for children aging out of foster care system Dead 02/24/2025
HB2937 Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment Dead 02/25/2025
HB2938 Making ivermectin available over the counter in West Virginia Dead 02/25/2025
HB2952 To allow a refundable child tax credit for all eligible for the federal tax credit Dead 02/25/2025
HB2954 Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health Dead 02/25/2025
HB2956 Expand the grade level for Laken’s Law Dead 02/25/2025
HB2962 Gender identification on forms of ID Dead 02/25/2025
HB2975 Changes to the practice of optometry Dead 02/26/2025
HB3038 Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested Dead 02/28/2025
HB3067 Protecting patient access to clinician-administered medications. Dead 03/03/2025
HB3068 Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers Dead 03/03/2025
HB3070 Relating to the requirement of insurance coverage for a nonopioid drug for a person diagnosed with a substance use disorder Dead 03/03/2025
HB3071 Require all workplaces to keep Naloxone available in first aid kits and train employees in the use of Naloxone Dead 03/03/2025
HB3076 Relating to access to original birth certificates to adopted adults or their lineal descendants Dead 03/03/2025
HB3079 Licensure exemptions for military family child care providers Dead 03/03/2025
HB3083 Relating to requiring a court to verify certain conditions are met before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home Dead 03/03/2025
HB3087 Prohibit the practice of white bagging Dead 03/03/2025
HB3096 Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months Dead 03/03/2025
HB3107 Creating WV Black Lung Program Dead 03/04/2025
HB3109 Relating to the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board Dead 03/04/2025
HB3119 Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees Dead 03/04/2025
HB3123 Relating to notification of breast density Dead 03/04/2025
HB3151 The Closed Captioning Act Dead 03/04/2025
HB3158 Making methadone clinics illegal Dead 03/05/2025
HB3159 The purpose is to make needle exchange programs illegal Dead 03/05/2025
HB3160 Requiring certification of nursing home Medical Directors Dead 03/05/2025
HB3163 To provide the name of Medical Directors of nursing homes to the public. Dead 03/05/2025
HB3177 Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring Dead 03/06/2025
HB3182 Luggage for foster care children transferred between homes Dead 03/06/2025
HB3199 Relating to restrictions on tobacco usage Dead 03/06/2025
HB3201 Relating generally to medical cannabis Dead 03/06/2025
HB3211 Relating to Cancer Prevention Programs for Firefighters Dead 03/07/2025
HB3215 Professional Firefighter cancer screening Dead 03/07/2025
HB3226 Relating to living anatomical gift Dead 03/07/2025
HB3229 Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons Dead 03/07/2025
HB3230 Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis Dead 03/07/2025
HB3232 West Virginia ALS Care Services Act Dead 03/07/2025
HB3233 Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program Dead 03/07/2025
HB3236 Re-establish a long term psychiatric/mental health assistance hospital/facility/home Dead 03/07/2025
HB3239 Establishing the Tri-Share Child Care Assistance Program Dead 03/07/2025
HB3240 Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team Dead 03/07/2025
HB3246 Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties Dead 03/07/2025
HB3248 Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider Dead 03/07/2025
HB3249 Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities Dead 03/07/2025
HB3250 Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities Dead 03/07/2025
HB3255 Authorizing counties to establish a county daycare Dead 03/07/2025
HB3261 Relating generally to the administration of anesthetics by CRNA Dead 03/07/2025
HB3277 Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/10/2025
HB3280 Authorize the Department of Human Services to transfer state facilities to regional mental health centers or intellectual disability facilities Dead 03/10/2025
HB3281 To create a Persons with Disabilities Registry. Dead 03/10/2025
HB3282 Establishing the Child Support from Conception Act Dead 03/10/2025
HB3283 Authorizing Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities Dead 03/10/2025
HB3298 Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities Dead 03/11/2025
HB3300 Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician Dead 03/11/2025
HB3301 Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products Dead 03/11/2025
HB3306 Involuntary treatment for substance use disorder (Cassie’s Law) Dead 03/11/2025
HB3308 Relating to the termination of the authority’s certificate of need program Dead 03/11/2025
HB3311 Exempt counties with certain population growth from the CON process Dead 03/11/2025
HB3328 Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate Dead 03/12/2025
HB3341 Relating to who may diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable disease under workers compensation Dead 03/13/2025
HB3343 Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration Dead 03/13/2025
HB3344 Relating to the establishment of a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine Dead 03/13/2025
HB3379 Clarifying when the Department is to not make reasonable efforts to preserve a family. Dead 03/14/2025
HB3380 To require the Bureau for Social Services to file is Social Services Manual as a legislative rule Dead 03/14/2025
HB3382 Addressing the placement of foster children and creating a central reception center and emergency resource homes. Dead 03/14/2025
HB3384 To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission. Dead 03/14/2025
HB3385 Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations Dead 03/14/2025
HB3437 To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights Dead 03/17/2025
HB3444 Relating to inflammation of the eyes of newborns. Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/17/2025
HB3445 Relating to regulating private alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs Dead 03/17/2025
HB3487 Providing that small format, micro hospitals are exempt from certificate of need review Dead 03/18/2025
HB3489 Relating to vaccine requirements Dead 03/18/2025
HCR80 Resolution encouraging education experts to create a cost of care estimator tool Dead 03/07/2025
HJR9 Relating to the right to refuse any medical treatment, injection, device, vaccine or prophylactic Dead 02/13/2025
HJR25 Relating to the right to reproductive freedom with protections for health and safety Dead 02/24/2025
HR6 Recognizing Transgenderism as a Mental Disorder and Affirming the Biological Reality of Two Genders Dead 02/17/2025
HR10 Urging the United States Congress to Extend Enhanced Premium Tax Credits for Health Insurance Premiums Under the Affordable Care Act Dead 03/19/2025
SB29 Allowing physicians assistants to own practice Dead 03/04/2025
SB83 Allowing Foster Care Ombudsman access to child protective records Dead 03/20/2025
SB85 Prohibiting use or sale of abortifacients Dead 04/02/2025
SB163 Including certain mental health disorders in existing public health programs Dead 04/03/2025
SB252 Requiring coverage of home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain Medicaid recipients Dead 04/03/2025
SB292 Allowing doula services be covered by Medicaid and PEIA Dead 03/26/2025
SB299 Modifying WV regulations on pubertal modulation, hormonal therapy, and gender reassignment Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/10/2025
SB325 Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/11/2025
SB460 Relating to vaccine requirements Dead 02/24/2025
SB517 Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health Dead 03/31/2025
SB526 Creating Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/26/2025
SB537 Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/04/2025
SB565 Relating generally to practice of optometry Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/11/2025
SB585 Relating to Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act Dead 04/04/2025
SB606 Relating to notification of breast density Dead 03/13/2025
SB710 Relating to the practice of teledentistry Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/24/2025
SB718 Relating to hospital transparency Dead 04/01/2025
SB723 Relating to clinical inpatient medical treatment centers for substance use disorder Dead 04/03/2025
SB726 Relating to medication-assisted treatment programs Dead 04/03/2025
SB739 Relating to recovery residences Dead 03/31/2025
SB761 Creating Joel Archer Substance Abuse Intervention Act Dead 03/31/2025
SB810 Clarifying requirements for administration of anesthesia and chronic pain practice by certain licensed nurses Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/31/2025
SB833 Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process Signed/Enacted/Adopted 03/31/2025
SB904 Clarifying requirements for Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health Dead 03/31/2025
SB939 Relating to testing for substance use disorder Dead 04/02/2025
SB944 Creating WV Child First Advisory Committee Dead 04/03/2025