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There are 175 Bills pending in House Health and Human Resources

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SB 398Removing full time requirement for health officers02/19/26
SB 404Relating to Department of Human Services authority to contract with certain providers02/16/26
SB 604Extending Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date02/12/26
SB 763Requiring children to be screened for sex trafficking upon entering foster care02/23/26
SB 795Permitting parents and guardians to pay for independent medical evaluation of child in protective custody02/25/26
SB 954Relating to health insurance for living organ donors03/02/26
SB 956Authorizing physician assistants to own business03/05/26
SB 1000Regulating vape and smoke shop retailers03/05/26
HB 4017Faith Based Partnership01/15/26
HB 4020Removing Full Time Requirement for Health Officers01/15/26
HB 4032Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested01/14/26
HB 4059To require hospitals and or Counties to report costs associated with illegal or undocumented immigrants01/14/26
HB 4061Requiring PEIA and other health insurance providers to provide payment parity for certain services01/14/26
HB 4068Requiring Department of Health to report positive Alpha Gal tests to CDC01/14/26
HB 4070Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity01/14/26
HB 4072Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership01/14/26
HB 4073Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations01/14/26
HB 4074Relating to establishing a pilot program to develop a childcare program where the state, employer, and employee, contribute one-third of the total cost each01/14/26
HB 4079Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government01/14/26
HB 4102Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods01/14/26
HB 4105To provide requirements relating to education of students and young adults about unplannned pregnancy options01/14/26
HB 4124To require baby food manufacturers to provide information about the quantity of or percentage of different types of heavy metals in baby food01/14/26
HB 4158Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators01/14/26
HB 4168Relating to vaccine requirements01/14/26
HB 4171Gender identification on forms of ID01/14/26
HB 4197Mandating health insurance coverage treatment of pediatric patients diagnoced with PANDAS or PANS 01/14/26
HB 4216Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lead abatement licensing01/14/26
HB 4217Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services.01/14/26
HB 4218Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services.01/14/26
HB 4219Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure.01/14/26
HB 4220 Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distribution of state funds for support of local boards of health.01/14/26
HB 4221Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to basic public health service standards for local boards of health01/14/26
HB 4222Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to diabetes self-management education.01/14/26
HB 4223Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the exemption of Certificate of Need.01/14/26
HB 4224Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home licensure.01/14/26
HB 4225Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rulerelating to delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel.01/14/26
HB 4226Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences.01/14/26
HB 4227Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to syringe services program licensure.01/14/26
HB 4228Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure.01/14/26
HB 4229Relating to authorizing the Department of Health Facilities to promulgate a legislative rule relating to patient rights at state-operated mental health facilities.01/14/26
HB 4336relating to standards for a medication-assisted treatment program.01/15/26
HB 4351Creating a Public Awareness Campaign on the threat of mold in indoor environments01/15/26
HB 4356Relating to permitting persons to refuse to participate in a irreversible transition surgery01/15/26
HB 4357Modifying the time to terminate a foster care arrangement01/15/26
HB 4359Exempt an existing hospital under certificate of need to move their facility up to 10 miles to a new location02/18/26
HB 4375To require the Bureau for Social Services to file the Social Services Manual as a legislative rule01/29/26
HB 4387Relating to information submitted by medical examiner to aid in identification of human remains01/15/26
HB 4392Banning certain dyes from pharmaceutical products02/03/26
HB 4394The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to publicly release a schedule of all adoption subsidy payments to be made in the next year. 01/15/26
HB 4403West Virginia Homeless Shelter Oversight & Safety Act02/18/26
HB 4413Making syringe exchange service programs unlawful02/12/26
HB 4459Relating to Kratom02/18/26
HB 4495To allow municipalities to regulate sober living housing in the cities01/19/26
HB 4510Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity01/19/26
HB 4511To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.01/19/26
HB 4512Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits.01/19/26
HB 4545To require the Department of Human Services to provide child welfare workers with mobile technology that will permit them to conduct investigations and create a digital record.01/19/26
HB 4554Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry01/20/26
HB 4569Updating law regarding prior authorizations 01/20/26
HB 4581Relating to monthly status meeting of county entities01/20/26
HB 4589Clarifying 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 Board01/22/26
HB 4614Relating to statewide prevention plan.01/20/26
HB 4627Mandate free cancer screenings for professional firefighters. 01/21/26
HB 4666Require medical examiners to review medical and immunization records and document any immunizations or emergency countermeasures given within 90 days before their death01/21/26
HB 4669Disallowing flouride to be added to public water systems01/21/26
HB 4672Relating to access to original birth certificates to adopted adults or their lineal descendants 01/21/26
HB 4674Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients01/21/26
HB 4699To create the Substance Abuse Recovery Tax Credit01/21/26
HB 4703Improving Medicaid access to durable medical equipment 01/21/26
HB 4715To remove restrictions for supervising physicians for Nurse practitioners or physician assistants in West Virginia01/27/26
HB 4721Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration01/22/26
HB 4726Housing assistance for children aging out of foster care system 01/22/26
HB 4757Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments01/22/26
HB 4771Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring01/23/26
HB 4782Sustainable Child-serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act02/12/26
HB 4786Clarifies the minimum hours of attendance necessary for child subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance01/23/26
HB 4795Relating to changing circumstances for when a child may be removed from a foster home.01/23/26
HB 4796Addressing the placement of foster children and creating a central reception center and emergency resource homes.01/23/26
HB 4810Relating to dental health care service plans01/29/26
HB 4815Allow community health center to provide sign-on bonus01/26/26
HB 4821Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program01/26/26
HB 4826Relating to petition for involuntary treatment for drug and alcohol abuse01/26/26
HB 4827Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees01/26/26
HB 4840Exempt federally qualified health centers from having to obtain a prior authorization for behavioral health services01/27/26
HB 4853Relating to hospitals establishing protocols for providing trauma informed care to patients01/29/26
HB 4899Requiring 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 issue01/28/26
HB 4907Restricting the use of pesticides02/02/26
HB 4915Sudden Death Reporting and Stransparency Act01/29/26
HB 4917Relating to the termination of the authority’s certificate of need program01/29/26
HB 4947Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines01/29/26
HB 4960Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees01/29/26
HB 4964To establish a phased implementation of a Community-Based Child Welfare system in West Virginia.01/29/26
HB 4984Generic use of antipsychotics in Medicaid02/18/26
HB 5034Relating to biometric privacy02/02/26
HB 5035Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations02/02/26
HB 5042Prohibit a child in the custody of the state from placement in facility not approved by Department of Human Services02/02/26
HB 5057To create the Rural Mobile Health and Mental Health Access Act.02/02/26
HB 5058Require that notice be provided for any lab-grown food served in restaurants.02/10/26
HB 5062To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act02/03/26
HB 5068Professional firefighter cancer screening 02/03/26
HB 5077Related to Mental Health Protection Act02/03/26
HB 5078Related to child tax credit02/03/26
HB 5085Related to troubled teen industry02/03/26
HB 5092Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis02/03/26
HB 5093Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities02/03/26
HB 5097Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate02/03/26
HB 5103Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months02/10/26
HB 5107Relating 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 home02/03/26
HB 5109Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers02/03/26
HB 5111To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission.02/03/26
HB 5112Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products02/03/26
HB 5113Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician02/03/26
HB 5119Establishing the right to contraception02/03/26
HB 5120MAHA - Menstrual Labeling Act02/03/26
HB 5122Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program02/03/26
HB 5135Establish Food Waste Task Force02/03/26
HB 5141Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies02/03/26
HB 5144Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs02/03/26
HB 5146Relating to drug scheduling02/03/26
HB 5149Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board02/03/26
HB 5153To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity02/03/26
HB 5157Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment02/03/26
HB 5158Men’s Equality Act02/03/26
HB 5181Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities02/04/26
HB 5184Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties02/04/26
HB 5185Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures02/04/26
HB 5188Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons02/04/26
HB 5189Relating to the use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations02/04/26
HB 5216Relating to community paramedicine programs02/05/26
HB 5233Relating to living anatomical gift02/05/26
HB 5254Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team02/05/26
HB 5256Relating to wages of persons with disabilities02/05/26
HB 5259Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis02/05/26
HB 5266Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider02/05/26
HB 5330Allow expedited partner treatment for bacterial vaginitis02/09/26
HB 5333To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients02/09/26
HB 5338Health Freedom for Teachers and Students Act.02/09/26
HB 5343Establish a medical Adult day care pilot program in Fayette County. 02/09/26
HB 5345To require child care subsidy payments in West Virginia to be based on enrollment rather than daily attendance02/12/26
HB 5363Authorizing counties to establish a county daycare02/09/26
HB 5370Require a 24 -hour hospital hold for persons deemed addicted to specific substances02/09/26
HB 5378Modifying the requirements for compulsory childhood immunizations to provide for exemptions based on religious and philosophical objections02/09/26
HB 5429Luggage for foster care children transfered between homes02/10/26
HB 5440Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection02/11/26
HB 5442Relating to training on the uses and indications of certain drugs for pregnant women.02/11/26
HB 5447Changes to the requirements for do not resusitate orders. 02/11/26
HB 5476Require monitoring of electronic records maintained by hospitals. 02/19/26
HB 5482Protecting patient access to clinician-administered medications. 02/12/26
HB 5493Provide a penalty of chemical castration or surgical castration for sex abuse crimes against minors.02/13/26
HB 5501Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation.02/13/26
HB 5523Relating to establishing minimum requirements for discharge of women in later stages of pregnancy from hospitals.02/13/26
HB 5530Relating to the composition of the Critical Incident Review Team02/16/26
HB 5546Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health02/16/26
HB 5547To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights02/16/26
HB 5553Relating to participation in federal prescription drug pricing programs.02/16/26
HB 5556Creating an external reference pricing pilot program for prescription drugs.02/16/26
HB 5567Biometric Information Privacy Act02/16/26
HB 5572Creating Vape and Smoke Shop Location and Operating Requirements Act02/16/26
HB 5576Relating to Socially Necessary Services (SNS) Accountability and Streamlining Act02/16/26
HB 5581Relating to newborn screening (Dawson’s Law)02/16/26
HB 5588Establish a regulated framework for the medical use of psilocybin to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)02/16/26
HB 5591Relating to dispensing of ivermectin02/16/26
HB 5592Ivermectin over the counter02/16/26
HB 5593Making ivermectin available over the counter in West Virginia02/16/26
HB 5610Authorizing Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities02/16/26
HB 5615Relating to Teleheatlh02/16/26
HB 5618Federal Court Decision Striking Down Certificate of Need Moratorium.02/16/26
HB 5623Youth Mental Health Protection Act02/16/26
HB 5628Relating to mitigating the abrupt loss of child care assistance resulting from modest increases in family income02/16/26
HB 5633Relating to extending the expiration date on a pilot program administered by the Herbert Henderson Office on Minority Affairs to promote public health through comprehensive community development.02/17/26
HB 5650To allow for the practice of naturopathic medicine in this state.02/17/26
HB 5658Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s Law. 02/17/26
HB 5659Relating to the development and implementation of a comprehensive model for the estimation of child care costs to be used in determining child care subsidy reimbursement rates.02/17/26
HB 5664To create the West Virginia Cares Fund02/17/26
HB 5681Relating to empowering qualified certified nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives to prescribe, administer, and dispense prescriptions drugs without a collaborating physician.02/23/26
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