Education: Middlebury College; West Virginia University College of Law
Occupation: Constitutional Lawyer
Spouse: Matthew
Children: 2
Parents: Christopher and Jeannette
Religion: Catholic
Town of Birth: Wheeling, West Virginia
Affiliations: Womans Club of Wheeling; Alumni Admissions Program Volunteer; Follansbee Chamber of Commerce
SPONSORED LEGISLATION, 2025Senator Chapman was the Lead Sponsor of 70 bills | |||
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 1 | Requiring utility work and road paving coordination | Signed | |
| SB 2 | Designating Patriot Day as state holiday | Pending | Finance |
| SJR 5 | Bi-annual Legislative Session Amendment | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 27 | Clarifying felony of exhibiting obscene matter to minor | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 28 | Requiring insurance coverage of certain genetic testing without cost sharing | Pending | Finance |
| SB 40 | Requiring doula services be covered and reimbursed by Medicaid and PEIA | Pending | |
| SB 125 | Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 126 | WV Volunteer State Defense Guard Act | Pending | |
| SB 156 | Providing diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing | Pending | |
| SB 157 | Providing pay raise for state road employees | Pending | |
| SB 158 | Modifying eligibility requirements for serving as member of State Board of Education | Vetoed | |
| SB 159 | Prohibiting certain medical exams on anesthetized patients | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 160 | Providing Medicaid coverage for postpartum health care | Pending | |
| SB 161 | Providing water filtration equipment to residents whose water is deemed unsafe | Pending | |
| SB 162 | Limiting cost of prescription medications for senior citizens | Pending | |
| SB 163 | Including certain mental health disorders in existing public health programs | Pending | |
| SB 164 | Clarifying parent and guardian access to minor child's medical records | Pending | |
| SB 165 | Ensuring equal financial support to kinship parents and fictive kin | Pending | |
| SB 166 | Requiring CPS to give parents written copy of their rights in certain circumstances | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 167 | Permitting care of patient by telemedicine across state lines | Pending | |
| SB 168 | Prohibiting rent control | Pending | |
| SB 169 | Increasing Medicaid personal needs allowance | Pending | Finance |
| SB 170 | Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 171 | Requiring all state buildings provide private room for nursing or breastfeeding purposes | Pending | |
| SB 172 | Permitting retired teachers to substitute up to 180 days without penalty of losing retirement | Pending | |
| SB 173 | Permitting hotels and public lodging establishments to provide human trafficking awareness training for employees | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 174 | Clarifying what constitutes shelter for animals exposed to cold weather | Pending | Agriculture |
| SB 175 | Prohibiting counties from double-taxing rental properties | Pending | |
| SB 176 | Relating to food allergen awareness in food service establishments | Pending | |
| SB 177 | Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act | Pending | |
| SB 178 | Imposing limit of three terms on elected public officials in state | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 179 | Granting school administrators ability to hold students back for 20 or more missed days | Pending | |
| SB 180 | Relating to teaching and instructing world languages in public schools | Pending | |
| SB 181 | Requiring payments to court-appointed attorneys be reimbursed or denied within 30 days of voucher submission | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 182 | Relating to EMT funding | Pending | |
| SB 183 | Providing tax deduction for medical payments | Pending | Finance |
| SB 184 | Prohibiting pre-conviction forfeiture of someone merely accused of crime | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 185 | Relating to lab grown meat | Pending | Agriculture |
| SB 262 | Establishing insurance provisions requiring coverage for annual breast cancer screenings | Pending | |
| SB 263 | Relating to use of criminal records as disqualification from authorization to practice particular profession | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 286 | Granting parents access to health records of minor child | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 291 | Extending time frame for pharmacies to register from annually to biennially | Signed | |
| SB 292 | Allowing doula services be covered by Medicaid and PEIA | Pending | Finance |
| SB 430 | Relating to cost-sharing requirements for breast examinations | Pending | Finance |
| SB 433 | Relating to dental health care service plans | Pending | |
| SB 497 | Preventing home insurers from canceling policy for isolated event | Pending | |
| SB 498 | Permitting dedicated lottery tickets for special interests | Pending | Finance |
| SB 500 | Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor | Signed | |
| SB 526 | Creating Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act | Signed | |
| SB 648 | Requiring courts to interpret statutes and regulations | Pending | |
| SB 697 | Creating Caregiver Tax Credit Act | Pending | Finance |
| SB 702 | Relating to payment rates for child care services | Pending | Finance |
| SB 710 | Relating to the practice of teledentistry | Signed | |
| SB 719 | Relating to age at which minor can consent to certain medical decisions and services | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 759 | Relating to having no requirement for immunization | Pending | |
| SB 760 | Modifying rate of tax due on licensee's adjusted gross receipts | Pending | Finance |
| SB 811 | Creating Child Care Subsidy Pilot Program | Pending | |
| SB 813 | Extending time frame for Department of Human Services to identify relatives and fictive kin | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 817 | Regulating private alternative adolescent residential or outdoor programs | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 821 | Requiring child protective services workers to wear body-worn cameras | Pending | Finance |
| SB 822 | Requiring Department of Human Services use mobile technology to assist in certain investigations | Pending | Finance |
| SB 824 | Amending procedures for regulation of scope of practice for occupations and professions | Pending | |
| SB 832 | Providing for administration of cost-sharing calculations | Pending | Finance |
| SB 833 | Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process | Signed | |
| SB 865 | Relating to best interests of child standard | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 886 | Relating to Foster Child Bill of Rights | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 887 | Creating intermediate conservatorship or guardianship process prior to individual being involuntarily committed | Pending | Judiciary |
| SB 905 | Requiring PEIA and other health insurance providers to provide payment parity for certain services | Pending | Finance |
| SB 913 | Relating to brain injury screening training | Pending | Finance |
| SB 932 | Combining offices of Legislative Auditor and State Auditor | Pending | |
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