Actions, Suits and Liens (13 Bills)
HB 4078 - To repeal a provision of the code relating to the limitation on bringing an action to enter upon or recover lands
HB 4534 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4557 - To create the felony offense for protestors blocking passage on streets and highways.
HB 4621 - Relating to requiring the circuit court to make certain designated findings of fact and conclusions of law in its juvenile child abuse and neglect orders
HB 4643 - Relating to liability shield products
HB 4752 - Relating to entry upon or recovery of lands
HB 4780 - Private or government, to pay an additional fee during eminent domain proceedings
HB 4820 - Relating to Good Samaritan Law.
HB 4866 - Relating to creating the West Virginia Public Participation Protection Act
HB 4878 - Relating to deadly force
HB 5001 - Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace
HB 5105 - Relating to financial exploitation of a person in recovery
HB 5186 - Establishing of the West Virginia Public Participation Act
Agriculture (17 Bills)
HB 4076 - Relating to the sale of homemade food items and honey
HB 4479 - Timber Innovation and Manufacturing Boost for Economic Revitalization Act
HB 4498 - Relating to clarifying the Right to Farm Act relating to residential agricultural operations and the protection of agriculture through Urban Beekeeping
HB 4632 - Right to Keep Bees
HB 4800 - Clarifying the penalty of a dog attacking livestock by adding a proviso to include “any other livestock.”
HB 4814 - Relating to creating the Equipment Right to Repair Act
HB 4907 - Restricting the use of pesticides
HB 4913 - Working Farm Property Tax Protection Act
HB 4925 - West Virginia Prime Act
HB 5033 - Pro-Growth Regulatory Reform Act of 2026
HB 5131 - Establish food desert produce pilot program
HB 5179 - Relating to auctioneers
HB 5190 - Increase conservation funding by $300,000, with the increase only to be allocated based on the head count of cattle and/or large livestock
HB 5332 - Agricultural Right to Repair Act
HB 5418 - Relating to dog racing requirements
HB 5426 - To add the Bradford Peat Pear (Pyrus calleryana) to the noxious weeds list
HB 5500 - To make allowances for bio-degradable farm/field products to escape the transport vehicle so to avoid potential fines
Alcoholic Liquors and Beers (7 Bills)
HB 4663 - To repeal the requirement for a special license for a multi-vendor private fair and festival.
HB 4736 - Repealing the wine and liquor operating fund and operations fee
HB 5142 - Relating to vintage distilled spirits
HB 5240 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 5243 - Allowing a bar to purchase liquor from a distillery or a mini-distillery
HB 5504 - Relating to the manufacture, sale, and distribution of low-proof spirit alcohol products.
HB 5510 - Eliminate the requirement for private wedding venues to own or lease 2 acres in rural location.
Appropriations (3 Bills)
HB 4427 - Relating to “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue under certain circumstances
HB 4428 - Requiring 50 percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue
HB 5017 - Establishing a one-time American Legion Post Support Grant Program
Banking and Finance (8 Bills)
HB 4009 - Relating to the creation of the Portable Benefit Account Act
HB 4170 - To prohibit the charging of any fees to cash any government issued check.
HB 4673 - To make gold, silver, and crypto currency legal tender in WV
HB 4687 - To create the State Bank of West Virginia
HB 4791 - Relating to joint accounts in banking institutions and eliminating the requirement that the commissioner approve joint account forms to be used by banking institutions
HB 4792 - Relating to requirements for disclosures and recordkeeping, reinforcing state law regarding late fees, and clarifying that a state-specific closing disclosure is not required as long as federal closing disclosures are given accurately
HB 4932 - Providing for the use of “A.C.” as a name ending for an accounting corporation.
HB 5178 - To provide asset preservation for minors who earn income from artistic or creative services for us of their name, image, or likeness
Boards and Commissions (25 Bills)
HB 4084 - To protect homeowners from unscrupulous contractors
HB 4121 - Relating to reporting duties of county commission regarding ambulance services.
HB 4165 - Reducing the term of office for Berkeley County Commisioners from six years to four years
HB 4167 - Relating generally to initiating a West Virginia legislative redistricting commission.
HB 4346 - Addressing the number of ambulance squads needed per affected population in every county
HB 4463 - Relating to the Board of Sanitarians
HB 4483 - Changing funeral director licensure from 2 years to 5 years
HB 4501 - Relating to Dietitian Licensure Compact
HB 4565 - Exempt those with 25 years holding an insurance license from attaining additional CEUs
HB 4667 - relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology
HB 4715 - To remove restrictions for supervising physicians for Nurse practitioners or physician assistants in West Virginia
HB 4736 - Repealing the wine and liquor operating fund and operations fee
HB 4762 - Providing veterinarian and veterinary technician reciprocity
HB 4785 - Relating to compensation for panel attorneys
HB 4793 - Creating the Barber Apprentice Program
HB 4804 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 5063 - To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member
HB 5087 - The purpose of this bill is to establish the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact, create the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact Commission, and provide for the administration of the Compact.
HB 5100 - Transferring all regulatory and enforcement responsibilities for CBD and Kratom from the Department of Agriculture to the Alcohol Beverage Control Administration.
HB 5325 - Creating an emeritus license status for retired 2 physicians, podiatric physicians and physician assistants who meet eligibility criteria.
HB 5394 - Recall of county commission or county board of education positions
HB 5458 - Relating to professionals to be licensed by the West Virginia Board of Medicine
HB 5494 - Authorizing county commissions to impose a county-wide emergency services fee on hotel stays.
HB 5501 - Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation.
HB 5503 - Relating to providing a $5,000 salary increase to certain inspectors.
Bonds (1 Bills)
HB 5431 - Relating generally to bonded indebtedness of the State of West Virginia
Compacts (1 Bills)
HB 4735 - Creating Corporate Anti-Subsidy Act
Constitutional Amendments (2 Bills)
HB 4091 - Removal of elected and certain appointed officers by courts.
HB 5422 - Relating to Home Rule Reform
Constitutional Officers (5 Bills)
HB 5222 - Providing for an increase service of process fees and fees in shipping and handling expenses for execution of service of process
HB 5227 - Providing for the amount the Secretary of State may charge for a bad check fee
HB 5229 - Relating to filing of a fraudulent financing statement.
HB 5274 - Allowing the Secretary of State administer oaths and affirmations.
HB 5404 - Creating an Office of Entrepreneurship
Consumer Protection (24 Bills)
HB 4060 - Businesses in WV must accept cash
HB 4382 - Require collection agencies to provide a 30 day notice prior to wage garnishments.
HB 4396 - Prevent credit card surcharge from including sales tax
HB 4432 - Establishing certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties
HB 4461 - Establishing limitations on billing practices of Internet or telecommunications providers that fail to provide subscribed customers service for five or more days
HB 4496 - To force any media/internet creator providing artificial intelligence created videos to have an identifying marker that allows viewers to know that the video is not real.
HB 4535 - Provide certain classes of property protections from creditor collections
HB 4631 - Internet Reliability Act
HB 4651 - Relating to unfair or unconscionable debt collection practices
HB 4739 - Junk Fee Prevention Act
HB 4843 - Relating to consumer protection and the collection of certain personally identifiable information.
HB 4868 - West Virginia Consumer Privacy Act of 2026
HB 4909 - Relating to consumer protection from fraudulent telephone solicitation
HB 4920 - To nullify any ATF powers by the federal government to regulate intrastate firearm sales in West Virginia
HB 4948 - To create a buffer zone between a data center and residence, school or house of worship
HB 4959 - Limiting amount event tickets can be sold for above original price
HB 5032 - Prevention of data center collection of citizen data
HB 5058 - Require that notice be provided for any lab-grown food served in restaurants.
HB 5120 - MAHA - Menstrual Labeling Act
HB 5123 - Consumer Data Protection Act
HB 5138 - Relating to law enforcement warrant for third party information
HB 5155 - To prohibit convenience fees for tenant’s of rental properties
HB 5255 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 5374 - Prohibiting or at least limiting unsolicited phone calls pushing benefits under medicare, auto insurance, or soliciting donations for various causes or benefits
Corporations (9 Bills)
HB 4045 - Allow customers to make changes to their accounts by phone or mail.
HB 4381 - Relating to disaffiliation from certain conferences
HB 4486 - Establish fines for any company or organization that knowingly hires an illegal alien
HB 4546 - Require biennial reports for limited liability and foreign limited liability companies.
HB 4549 - Local Government Freedom Act
HB 4910 - To oppose the use of eminent domain in West Virginia for private corporation benefit
HB 5172 - Relating to establishing the Low Earth Orbit Broadband Internet Connection Fund.
HB 5196 - Relating to allowing intergovernmental agreements with the Land Stewardship Corporation
HB 5264 - Establishing workers cooperative corporations
Corrections (21 Bills)
HB 4032 - Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested
HB 4139 - Allow female inmates to work on state convict road crews.
HB 4341 - Relating to per diem jail costs
HB 4414 - Require registration of persons convicted of abuse
HB 4415 - Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state
HB 4429 - Create a prison work pilot program
HB 4552 - Relating to the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers
HB 4553 - To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.
HB 4714 - To create the West Virginia Inmate Litter Cleanup and Rehabilitation Act.
HB 4779 - To require parole boards to take into account the sentencing judge’s recommendation at the time of sentencing
HB 4898 - Requiring the West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide an inmate with one physical copy of their birth certificate and social security card upon release
HB 4903 - Provide a pay equity salary adjustment and increase to certain employees of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
HB 5049 - Provide wardens with ability to use inmates to perform work in the upkeep local cemeteries
HB 5050 - Make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force
HB 5067 - Relating to the powers and duties of the director of the Division of Administrative Services
HB 5075 - Relating to non-uniform DCR pay raises
HB 5082 - Related to menstrual products in correctional facilities
HB 5104 - Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service
HB 5257 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 5444 - Relating to increasing the amount of fees to be paid by parolees for supervision.
HB 5452 - Relating to the standard of proof required for a final parole or probation revocation hearing.
Counties (40 Bills)
HB 4039 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 4056 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 4059 - To require hospitals and or Counties to report costs associated with illegal or undocumented immigrants
HB 4113 - Emergency Medical Services Sales Tax
HB 4118 - Authority to establish voluntary firefighter service fee and fund.
HB 4121 - Relating to reporting duties of county commission regarding ambulance services.
HB 4172 - Removing the Office of County Surveyor from election ballots
HB 4178 - To challenge the necessity of needing a municipal or county license as well as a WV State license for doing business
HB 4346 - Addressing the number of ambulance squads needed per affected population in every county
HB 4361 - County solid waste assessment fees authorized
HB 4408 - To adjust the percent retained by the clerk of the county commission for funding election administration, infrastructure, and security, and other county clerk purposes
HB 4513 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4516 - Enacting Water Quality Improvement Programs In Counties By Conservation Districts
HB 4521 - State to reimburse county for inmate costs when conviction results in credit for time served
HB 4549 - Local Government Freedom Act
HB 4623 - Require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases
HB 4624 - To permit the county commission of each county to lease, rent or to permit the use of a county owned wireless tower or any portion thereof, with exceptions
HB 4679 - To prohibit counties, towns and municipalities from using taxpayer dollars to hire lobbyists to represent them at the State level
HB 4684 - Eliminate all state and county subsidies or tax breaks for solar compounds or wind compounds or other renewable energy corporations
HB 4693 - To declassify Community and Technical Education (“CTE”) teaching positions to allow for counties to provide additional funding for certain positions.
HB 4707 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4738 - County authority to impose a vacancy tax
HB 4776 - Hotel occupancy tax rate
HB 4801 - Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties
HB 4804 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 4841 - Allow county commissions to formally petition the Division of Highways regarding the repair of local roads
HB 5030 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 5044 - To create the Rural County Stabilization and Grant Flexibility Act.
HB 5047 - To create the Mobile Career and Technical Education Classroom Program.
HB 5063 - To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member
HB 5168 - To increase funding for EMS first responders.
HB 5171 - Relating to salary schedule adjustments for elected county officials.
HB 5199 - Relating to county parks and recreation commission
HB 5207 - To increase the protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 5272 - Appropriations from the state Revenue Shortfall Fund and the Income Tax Reserve Fund be utilized to initiate investments in flood prevention initiatives to reduce the impact of severe flooding
HB 5329 - Expand the usage of impact fees for county development
HB 5363 - Authorizing counties to establish a county daycare
HB 5421 - To require drones used by state and county personnel to be produced in the United States
HB 5468 - Allotting counties $5,000 per deputy position to only be used for deputy pay raises
HB 5494 - Authorizing county commissions to impose a county-wide emergency services fee on hotel stays.
County Officials (13 Bills)
HB 4118 - Authority to establish voluntary firefighter service fee and fund.
HB 4165 - Reducing the term of office for Berkeley County Commisioners from six years to four years
HB 4361 - County solid waste assessment fees authorized
HB 4469 - Establish residency requirements for county surveyor be a resident of the state and provide exemption for holding more than one office.
HB 4534 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4561 - Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office.
HB 4582 - Related to the authority of sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes
HB 4613 - The State Resiliency Office
HB 4872 - To allow for the reinstatement of retired Deputy Sheriffs to their former departments.
HB 5339 - Prevent public school districts or supervisors from taking adverse action against public school employees for expressing opinions on social media or in public.
HB 5351 - Relating to modernization of fees generated from emergency communication service users
HB 5386 - Relating to candidate’s certificate of announcement.
HB 5469 - Allowing for a paid commission for sheriffs
Courts (40 Bills)
HB 4358 - Establishing pilot program for Public Guardian Ad Litem Services
HB 4360 - Relating generally to allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals discretion to create uniform pay scales for all levels of judicial support staff.
HB 4405 - Expanding the reasons that an executive director may create, merge, or dissolve a public defender corporation
HB 4458 - Creating Substance Abuse Intervention Act
HB 4523 - To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election
HB 4525 - To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections
HB 4568 - Clarifying abuse of process
HB 4570 - To make the posting of a summons in a conspicuous place on rental property acceptable service when a tenant is unavailable for personal service
HB 4650 - Modifying the process by which a Defendant is entitled to a trial by jury in municipal court
HB 4722 - Relating to false judicial accusations after a determination of falsity
HB 4725 - Clarifying the disposition of animal subject to animal cruelty treatment.
HB 4758 - Raise the Penalties for Murder and attempted Murder
HB 4780 - Private or government, to pay an additional fee during eminent domain proceedings
HB 4807 - Relating generally to the creation of mental hygiene regions by the Supreme Court of Appeals
HB 4830 - To provide compensation to those who have been adversely affected by the actions of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeal’s Judicial Investigative Committee
HB 4842 - Relating to civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images.
HB 4893 - Increase the penalties for contempt of court in a magistrate court
HB 4979 - Reinstituting the maintenance of actions for alienation of affection and criminal conversation
HB 4980 - To establish civil liability for judges who knowingly violate the law, conduct unlawful hearings, or abuse litigants in the performance of their duties
HB 4997 - Relating to residency restrictions for persons convicted of terroristic threats
HB 4998 - Provide for a raise for private investigators hired by public defender offices or court appointed panel attorneys
HB 5027 - Relating to eminent domain and use of property taken.
HB 5036 - The sovereignty of law and judicial authority in the State of West Virginia.
HB 5059 - Relating to authorizing cultural heritage institutions to claim title to certain property in possession of the cultural heritage institution after providing certain notices.
HB 5086 - Relating to peer support services
HB 5156 - Second Look Sentencing Act
HB 5164 - Relating generally to the state fire marshal
HB 5183 - Directing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County
HB 5208 - The Family Justice Restoration and Due Process Act of 2026
HB 5361 - Relating to federal law enforcement in specific locations
HB 5370 - Require a 24 -hour hospital hold for persons deemed addicted to specific substances
HB 5408 - Relating to personal information disclosure
HB 5427 - To prohibit the malicious publication of personally identifiable information with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, stalk, or facilitate harm.
HB 5471 - To provide pay increases to members of the judiciary
HB 5473 - Relating to providing a civil remedy when a federal officer or employee violates a constitutional right.
HB 5477 - Relating to federal immigration enforcement.
HB 5493 - Provide a penalty of chemical castration or surgical castration for sex abuse crimes against minors.
HB 5516 - Require abuse and neglect case appeals to be processed within 6 months
HB 5517 - Relating to the Office of Insurance Commissioner maintaining and posting lists of bondsmen
HB 5518 - Judicial Accountability and Recall Act
Crime (110 Bills)
HB 4041 - Making it a mandatory 25 year sentence for an assault on any law enforcement or animal
HB 4044 - To require hair follicle drug testing of parents or guardians in cases of substantiated child abuse or neglect of a minor
HB 4049 - Relating to the creation of the Criminal Forfeiture Process Act replacing the West Virginia Contraband Forfeiture Act
HB 4051 - Permitting certain nonviolent offenders to be able to carry firearms.
HB 4085 - To increase penalties for selling or facilitating the sale of alcohol to a minor.
HB 4096 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 4097 - To create the Protection of Shared Physical and Digital Property from Warrantless Searches Act
HB 4106 - Allowing constitutional carry for 18- to 20-year-olds
HB 4128 - Determining Bond requirements for certain crimes
HB 4129 - Relating to the prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures.
HB 4130 - Increase penalties for abuse of or cruelty to animals
HB 4135 - To allow police access to all photo information upon arrest for sex offenders
HB 4138 - Relating to persons convicted of a crime
HB 4147 - Make underage tobacco possession unlawful
HB 4161 - Providing authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days
HB 4169 - Relating to mental health examination requirements.
HB 4179 - To create felony charge for individuals who assault police officers or police dogs
HB 4185 - Repeal the West Virginia machinegun ban
HB 4365 - Relating to accessories to a crime
HB 4366 - Relating to military interpersonal violence
HB 4370 - Allowing the concealed carry of firearms on and in Capitol grounds
HB 4372 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 4374 - Relating to Off Duty LEO and LEOSA Exemptions
HB 4411 - To clarify what constitutes trespassing at an institution of higher education
HB 4415 - Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state
HB 4433 - Prohibiting Human Smuggling and Trafficking
HB 4434 - Increasing penalties for Corruption
HB 4448 - Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter
HB 4458 - Creating Substance Abuse Intervention Act
HB 4459 - Relating to Kratom
HB 4466 - Extend the public intoxication of alcohol code to include being under the impairment of narcotics in public
HB 4477 - To give the Secretary of State authority to refer allegations of violations of election laws to West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute.
HB 4496 - To force any media/internet creator providing artificial intelligence created videos to have an identifying marker that allows viewers to know that the video is not real.
HB 4511 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 4519 - Require full cash bail for offenders who are rearrested for certain crimes while out on bond and enhanced criminal penalties
HB 4528 - Regarding release of juvenile following assault of law enforcement or first responder
HB 4543 - Prohibit certain individuals from living within 5,000 feet of a school or daycare
HB 4557 - To create the felony offense for protestors blocking passage on streets and highways.
HB 4566 - Increasing penalties for hit and run offenses
HB 4606 - Relating to the meaning of residence for the purpose of bail
HB 4648 - To ensure felonies or violent misdemeanors are not eligible for personal recognizance discharge from jail
HB 4661 - Allowing death penalty for intentionally killing law-enforcement officer or first responder in line of duty
HB 4662 - Creating additional sentences for convicted inmates who test positive for illegal substances or who are found to be in possession of illegal or controlled substances
HB 4668 - To make any accident involving a driver that is driving on a revoked/suspended license or is driving while unlicensed is automatically at fault for the accident
HB 4671 - Relating to illegal immigrants
HB 4674 - Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients
HB 4677 - To require a warrant for DNR officials or officers to enter onto any private property
HB 4678 - Relating to Constitutional Carry
HB 4680 - Prohibit the shutdown of churches or places of worship
HB 4682 - Fourth Amendment Restoration Act
HB 4685 - Relating to Capitol Carry
HB 4695 - To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor
HB 4712 - Increasing the criminal penalties for DUI causing death to be known as “Baylea’s Law.”
HB 4714 - To create the West Virginia Inmate Litter Cleanup and Rehabilitation Act.
HB 4750 - Clarifying where convicted sex offenders may reside.
HB 4755 - Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses
HB 4758 - Raise the Penalties for Murder and attempted Murder
HB 4771 - Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring
HB 4779 - To require parole boards to take into account the sentencing judge’s recommendation at the time of sentencing
HB 4799 - To establish the cold case task force for the State of West Virginia
HB 4829 - Make speeds that exceed 30MPH over the speed limit reckless driving
HB 4845 - Prohibiting entry by illegal aliens
HB 4857 - Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunicating devices into jails.
HB 4873 - To remove the 2 year timeframe for medical malpractice suits to be filed only for individuals who were minors when they had their procedures performed
HB 4878 - Relating to deadly force
HB 4886 - Relating to guidelines for home confinement
HB 4920 - To nullify any ATF powers by the federal government to regulate intrastate firearm sales in West Virginia
HB 4966 - Increase the penalty for adults who buy vapes and cartiges for underage children
HB 4970 - To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing
HB 4974 - Relating generally to persons porhibited from possessing firearms.
HB 4988 - To impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers
HB 4990 - Relating to crimes using gift cards
HB 4999 - Relating to crimes against athletic officials
HB 5016 - To clarify those required to register sex offenders, who must register temporary addresses
HB 5020 - To prohibit a convicted felons of sexual assault, or abuse of juveniles on public school property
HB 5086 - Relating to peer support services
HB 5099 - Relating to restitution payments for the support of a child whose parent or guardian is a victim of intoxication manslaughter
HB 5101 - The Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act
HB 5130 - Permitting civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images
HB 5146 - Relating to drug scheduling
HB 5156 - Second Look Sentencing Act
HB 5164 - Relating generally to the state fire marshal
HB 5170 - Relating to Capitol Carry
HB 5173 - To create the West Virginia Rural Littering and Illegal Dumping Prevention Act.
HB 5176 - Relating to creating the animal abuse database within the West Virginia State Police.
HB 5198 - Relating to crimes against the intellectually disabled
HB 5206 - To make certain acts of panhandling and solicitation unlawful
HB 5209 - Create a registry of persons convicted of animal abuse
HB 5232 - Creating the Police Partnering with Communities Act
HB 5246 - Safe Play Act
HB 5253 - Creating a domestic violence registry
HB 5259 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 5261 - Relating generally to forfeiture of contraband
HB 5267 - Providing for the reintegration of inmates in correctional facilities
HB 5322 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5335 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5341 - To create a domestic violence registry
HB 5344 - Relating to the definition of firearm
HB 5348 - Relating to pedestrians standing in or near the right of way
HB 5372 - Creating WV Constitutional Carry Act of 2025
HB 5380 - Removing the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions
HB 5400 - Relating generally to punishment for child neglect resulting in death.
HB 5406 - Relating to driving under the influence
HB 5436 - Make it a felony to kill a canine officer
HB 5477 - Relating to federal immigration enforcement.
HB 5484 - Creating the crime of conspiracy to deny medical treatment to victim of sexual offense
HB 5488 - Relating to establishing the offense of assault upon or injury to a service animal; and providing for penalties.
HB 5496 - Providing for the offense of child torture.
HB 5520 - Foreign Adversary and Terrorist Agent Registration and Transnational Repression Act
HB 5528 - Relating to “Daniel’s Law”
Domestic Relations (11 Bills)
HB 4366 - Relating to military interpersonal violence
HB 4384 - Providing for temporary suspension of medical power of attorney in certain instances
HB 4511 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 4884 - To recalculate how child support payments are made
HB 4888 - To modify child support payments for working parents
HB 4923 - Protecting Due Process in Firearm Confiscation Related to Protective Orders
HB 4964 - To establish a phased implementation of a Community-Based Child Welfare system in West Virginia.
HB 5107 - 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
HB 5169 - To provide a tax credit for new parents in this state in certain circumstances.
HB 5341 - To create a domestic violence registry
HB 5466 - Relating to Abuse Prevention Program
Economic Development (30 Bills)
HB 4003 - WV First Small Business Growth Act
HB 4004 - Creating the Recharge West Virginia Program
HB 4006 - Creating the West Virginia Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Growth Act
HB 4008 - Relating to Business Ready Sites Program
HB 4014 - Workforce Readiness and Opportunity Act
HB 4015 - Tourism Development Act Credit.
HB 4016 - Historic Rehab Building Credit Act
HB 4151 - Establishing the West Virginia Aviation Access and Tourism Growth Act
HB 4162 - WV Economic Development and Property Revitalization Tax Credit
HB 4174 - Creating a standing legislative oversight committee to approve all West Virginia Economic Development contracts.
HB 4478 - Relating to racing facilities
HB 4500 - Permitting the Berkeley County Commission to levy a special district excise tax for the benefit of the Berkeley County Economic Opportunity Development District under certain conditions.
HB 4520 - Provide 25% Discount to WV Residents using State Parks
HB 4530 - Creating Retail Impact Intersection Improvement Fund
HB 4548 - WV building and constructions trades code enforcement West Virginia First
HB 4784 - Extending the Qualified Opportunity Zones until July 1, 2032.
HB 4832 - Relating to the use of state water resources
HB 4854 - Prohibiting the state or any political subdivision from subsidizing any data center in West Virginia
HB 4919 - To abolish the Department of Economic Development and the cabinet board position
HB 4958 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 5028 - To create the Small-Town Main Street Recovery Act.
HB 5136 - Authorizing certain motor vehicle manufactures to operate as new car dealers
HB 5151 - Creating the Office of Entrepreneurship within the Office of Economic Development
HB 5200 - Creating Office of entrepreneurship
HB 5232 - Creating the Police Partnering with Communities Act
HB 5262 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 5320 - Welcome Act
HB 5480 - Relating to establishing the West Virginia Youth Summer Employment and Career Readiness Program.
HB 5490 - Providing a discount for green fees at West Virginia State Parks.
HB 5492 - Relating to advance purchase agreements for electric substation transformers
Education (Higher) (33 Bills)
HB 4002 - Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory
HB 4065 - Relating to the membership of the Hope Scholarship Board
HB 4081 - To create the Higher Education Health and Aid Grant.
HB 4082 - Require the West Virginia Department of Education to provide a complete and in-depth budget for review to the Legislature.
HB 4087 - To create a West Virginia-Ireland Education Alliance.
HB 4102 - Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods
HB 4116 - Relating to eligiblity for WV Invests Grant Program
HB 4119 - Establishing the West Virginia TEACH Scholarship Program
HB 4189 - Relating to Hope Scholarships awards
HB 4193 - Per-Credit Tuition for WV Community Colleges
HB 4485 - Allow education employees to donate sick leave to co-workers for maternity leave
HB 4533 - Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”
HB 4587 - Prohibiting public funds from supporting low-earning outcome postsecondary degree programs
HB 4592 - Relating to college campus safety
HB 4693 - To declassify Community and Technical Education (“CTE”) teaching positions to allow for counties to provide additional funding for certain positions.
HB 4768 - Relating to updating definitions to incorporate federal law changes to qualified higher education expenses for purposes of 529 accounts
HB 4859 - Allowing a county board of education participating in the operation of a multicounty vocational center to withdraw
HB 4958 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 4961 - Cap the amount of family income eligible for Hope Scholarships
HB 5010 - Prohibiting institutions of higher education and affiliate organizations from accepting gifts partnerships, or other funding relationships from foreign adversaries.
HB 5047 - To create the Mobile Career and Technical Education Classroom Program.
HB 5110 - Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes
HB 5111 - To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission.
HB 5143 - Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions
HB 5148 - Student Bill of Rights
HB 5205 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create model policies on the use of technology and artifical intelligence in a public school classroom
HB 5212 - To revise, update, and streamline the requirements for higher education grants, scholarships, loans, and financial aid for postsecondary education programs, workforce development initiatives, and workforce grants.
HB 5244 - To institute the Learn and Earn program for four-year schools.
HB 5245 - Creating the Governor’s Cup competition
HB 5268 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 5354 - Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education
HB 5362 - Relating to Hope Scholarships awards
HB 5384 - To authorize the HEPC to be able to adjust the required composite testing score for ACT and SAT in regard to PROMISE scholarship year to year in order to maximize the number of awards
Education (K12) (165 Bills)
HB 4034 - To display the Ten Commandments in public schools
HB 4037 - Consolidate county school boards
HB 4062 - To create the West Virginia Homeschool Student Athletics Participation Act.
HB 4063 - Relating to requiring the State Board of Education to design, test, and deploy an internet-based reporting system to be known as the School Choice Portal
HB 4066 - Creating penalties for county and state boards of education for providing misinformation to parents, custodians, reviewers, or any other individual through any form of communication
HB 4071 - Requiring K–12 schools to display school report card on website
HB 4077 - Remove standardized testing in public and private schools
HB 4082 - Require the West Virginia Department of Education to provide a complete and in-depth budget for review to the Legislature.
HB 4090 - Provide for the employment or acceptance as avolunteer of a Certified Chaplain by public school board
HB 4093 - To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.
HB 4100 - Relating to human growth and development curriculum
HB 4103 - Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools
HB 4104 - American Civics and History Act
HB 4105 - To provide requirements relating to education of students and young adults about unplannned pregnancy options
HB 4112 - Provide tax credit for homeschool students
HB 4115 - To modify the required amount of contracted teaching days and provide for breaks per semester for teachers.
HB 4122 - To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present
HB 4133 - Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses
HB 4136 - To require the Department of Education to alter who can certify homeschool portfolios or review them
HB 4145 - Creating a school choice office.
HB 4146 - To require compulsory vaccinations for anyone employed by the public school system in this state.
HB 4181 - Permitting middle or high school students to participate in travel sports teams without repercussion.
HB 4368 - Relating to military connected students
HB 4372 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 4383 - West Virginia Clean Air in Schools Act of 2026
HB 4395 - All investigations into allegations of child safety violations and child welfare risks continue for all school personnel regardless of whether the accused moved to a different job or school. This pertains to schools and school boards.
HB 4402 - Relating to school protection officers
HB 4422 - To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities in the fall
HB 4425 - To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility.
HB 4440 - Permitting law enforcement to issue a citation when students are caught with nicotine in schools.
HB 4449 - Permitting cameras in classrooms
HB 4450 - Removing restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum, and allow for taxpayers to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom
HB 4453 - Regarding Teacher Pay
HB 4467 - Relating to maternity leave for school employees
HB 4485 - Allow education employees to donate sick leave to co-workers for maternity leave
HB 4497 - To not entitle WV students to get aid from any WV schools unless they pass a college qualification exam in the 10th grade
HB 4505 - Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse
HB 4544 - To create a homeless education coordinator in urban and rural counties.
HB 4572 - Rural School Flexibility & Innovation Pilot Act
HB 4573 - Foster Youth Post-Secondary Transition Awareness Act
HB 4578 - To provide more local control over educational decisionmaking, differentiation of funding for counties, and to address operational efficiencies within education.
HB 4584 - Market pay for Teachers
HB 4588 - Relating to participating in the federal tax credit scholarship porgram
HB 4593 - Allow for PE classes to be optional for students who can demonstrate 5 or more weekly hours of outside physical activity
HB 4605 - Relating to modifying the school aid formula to provide more support for schools under certain circumstances.
HB 4607 - Relating to standards of private schools
HB 4608 - School Board Election Date Act
HB 4611 - Creating the Hope to Help Community Schools Act of 2026.
HB 4634 - Support for neglected Schools
HB 4637 - Limit the time Teachers Aides can be pulled from their regular duties to 30 minutes per day.
HB 4641 - Relating to codifying the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches
HB 4644 - Require that County Superintendents of Schools for the Department of Education be West Virginia residents.
HB 4646 - Remote Schools Support Act
HB 4654 - To require that teachers in grades 7 through twelve, who teach classes with more than 30 students in their classes receive an additional $25 per day per student over the 30 student-limit, with exceptions for physical education, band, chorus, strings, theater, dance, and other classes aimed at artistic performance.
HB 4655 - Expand the grade level for Laken’s Law
HB 4656 - Relating to chronic absenteeism
HB 4658 - To add to the teacher pay scale the increments of Bachelor’s Plus 30 and Master’s Plus 60 and add that amount in the appropriate increment.
HB 4659 - Transfer oversight of childcare from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Education
HB 4660 - To move any remaining sixth grade classifications from elementary schools to middle schools.
HB 4670 - To create a pilot program that would exempt certain counties from provisions of the Education code.
HB 4690 - To repeal obsolete and outdated sections of the Education code.
HB 4697 - Require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a “free/elective/assistant” period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them
HB 4698 - Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices
HB 4701 - Relating to the creation of the West Virginia Math & Science Teacher Scholarship Act
HB 4705 - To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state
HB 4708 - Clarifying how substitute teachers may serve for extended periods.
HB 4727 - To provide a 25% pay increase for state teachers (all salary scales)
HB 4759 - Modifing the rules for transferring students
HB 4774 - To set the salary of the Associate Superintendent of Schools
HB 4775 - Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools
HB 4777 - Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program
HB 4794 - Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school
HB 4798 - Requiring teachers to wear a “mobile alert button” for emergency situations, to be known as “Alyssa’s Law.”
HB 4817 - Relating to modifying the Charter Schools Startup Fund
HB 4818 - Relating to providing greater access to unused public buildings for public charter schools
HB 4834 - To permit women’s wrestling in public high schools as a sanctioned event
HB 4844 - Modify the procedure for teachers when using leave
HB 4847 - Local Shares teacher and school personnel pay
HB 4849 - Authorize the Superintendent of the county schools district to apply directly to the School Building Authority for emergency funding to facilitate remediation of hazards.
HB 4851 - Relating to creating a moratorium on school closures and consolidations pending a West Virginia Department of Education (“WVDE”) school aid formula proposal.
HB 4855 - To the elimination of the West Virginia Department of Education and providing direct funding for education
HB 4859 - Allowing a county board of education participating in the operation of a multicounty vocational center to withdraw
HB 4860 - Direct Classroom Funding Act
HB 4871 - Make available vegetarian meal option for students enrolled in schools, provided that such meals comply with all applicable federal nutritional guidelines
HB 4875 - To provide a 25% pay increase for state school service personnel (all salary scales)
HB 4892 - To expand the provisionof the literacy-based promation act in order to provide certin intervention and implementation stratagies for literacy proficiency among students in grade 4 through grade 8
HB 4900 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 4904 - Relating to critical vacancies in public education
HB 4905 - Removing fees teachers have to pay in order to obtain any teaching license, certification, or additional continuing education credit hours (reporting fee) to the state Board of Education
HB 4914 - West Virginia Education Freedom and Parental Empowerment Act
HB 4918 - Mandate the number of School days or hours required
HB 4937 - Establish mandated monthly half days for students to all allow school staff planning time
HB 4938 - Require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in a grant writing procedures.
HB 4939 - To provide $10,000 a year salary increase for any teacher who goes through the National Board Certification process and becomes nationally certified
HB 4940 - Relating to teacher fundraising
HB 4941 - To provide a raise for special education aides, as well as a raise for self-contained special education teachers
HB 4942 - To establish requirements for adult supervision on county school buses
HB 4943 - Require all students to be taught how to properly handle, fold, treat, honor, display, and retire the American flag
HB 4944 - To determine the salaries of all county Superintendent of School based on population.
HB 4945 - Prohibit the use of electronic devices for learning in all classrooms grades 3 and below
HB 4946 - Authorizing a pilot program for a four day school week
HB 4950 - To establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 2026
HB 4952 - Related to the establishment of the Charter School Direct Loan Program and the Charter School Credit Enhancement Program within the West Virginia Economic Development Authority
HB 4953 - To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination
HB 4955 - To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide
HB 4956 - To change the beginning of the school year to the Tuesday after Labor Day and the end of the school year to the Friday before Memorial Day.
HB 4957 - To change the amount of days in a school year from 180 to 160.
HB 4967 - To allow for the WVSSAC to pull coaching certificates of coaches who are found guilty of illegal recruiting
HB 4973 - Relating to raising the state minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 beginning in school year 2026-2027
HB 4975 - To consolidate county boards of education and create regional districts.
HB 4987 - Relating to the creation of the Safety and Violence Education for Students Act
HB 4995 - Require the use of video cameras in certain special education classrooms
HB 5005 - Providing liability protection for video cameras in certain classrooms.
HB 5012 - Providing for in-year school personnel movement to meet school needs.
HB 5043 - Raising salaries for school service personnel
HB 5045 - Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals
HB 5048 - To ensure virtual instruction for foster students while in temporary placement facilities.
HB 5051 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 5053 - To institute safeguards to verify educational quality for homeschooled students, particularly concerning core subjects and manufactured grades
HB 5061 - Relating to the consolidation of county school districts in the state.
HB 5072 - Creating the TechCred Program
HB 5089 - Providing for verified mastery of content standards for transcripts when a student enrolls or re-enrolls in a public school in this state.
HB 5090 - To eliminate all vaccine requirements for school children
HB 5115 - To implement trauma-informed practices in schools
HB 5118 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 5121 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5124 - Relating to the eligibility of nonpublic schools and education service providers to participate in the Hope Scholarship Program
HB 5126 - To make it explicit that both the lottery fund and the excess lottery fund can be utilized for early childhood education throughout West Virginia
HB 5132 - Develop a new method to determine the minimum number of hours per day and per school year to be spent on instructional time.
HB 5137 - Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees
HB 5148 - Student Bill of Rights
HB 5163 - Relating to exempting child-care programs operated by a county board of education exclusively for the children of its employees from certain licensing requirementsg
HB 5180 - When schools have events the school needs to sell tickets at the gate as well as online and accept cash
HB 5192 - School funding calculations should be the last three-year running average or the current enrollment, whichever is highest
HB 5194 - To ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms.
HB 5205 - Requiring the State Board of Education to create model policies on the use of technology and artifical intelligence in a public school classroom
HB 5239 - To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,000
HB 5245 - Creating the Governor’s Cup competition
HB 5247 - Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services
HB 5248 - To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field
HB 5249 - Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers
HB 5257 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 5265 - Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools
HB 5270 - To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers
HB 5271 - Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child
HB 5321 - To guarantee timely educational evaluations and continuity of services for children entering foster care.
HB 5322 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5335 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5338 - Health Freedom for Teachers and Students Act.
HB 5339 - Prevent public school districts or supervisors from taking adverse action against public school employees for expressing opinions on social media or in public.
HB 5346 - Creating the school aid formula study commission
HB 5355 - If a person who is not certified is holding a teaching position in a WV public school - that position has to come up for bid every year until it is held by a certified person.
HB 5356 - Modify Funding to Mountaineer ChalleNGe Academy
HB 5369 - West Virginia Rural School Protection Act
HB 5387 - Relating to high school graduation requirements
HB 5417 - Relating to authorizing the use of professional fireworks displays on public school property
HB 5420 - Require the teaching of classical informal logic in public middle schools and implmenting rquirements for teachers to teach logic courses
HB 5434 - Creating a moratorium for two years on school closures and providing for a pause on impending school closures.
HB 5435 - The purpose of this bill is to increase funding for rural counties in this state by adding a multiplier to the IEP calculation.
HB 5438 - To modify the foundation allowance to improve instructional programs.
HB 5453 - To modify the school aid funding formula.
HB 5478 - Establish a statewide pilot program to improve kindergarten readiness.
HB 5495 - Creating certain requirements and accountability procedures regarding a student’s use of software in a public school.
HB 5499 - Relating to school system fiscal and governance early warning, stabilization, and accountability.
HB 5511 - To allow money paid to state employees to go to their estate if they pass away before their retirement date
Elections (66 Bills)
HB 4080 - To provide for partisan races for mayoral and city council races, and provide for the election of mayors by citizens of a town or municipality.
HB 4157 - Eliminating requirement for write-in candidates to register with Secretary of State in order to qualify write-in candidate votes to be counted.
HB 4160 - Relating to federal involvement in elections
HB 4164 - Election integrity and People’s vote protection act
HB 4172 - Removing the Office of County Surveyor from election ballots
HB 4173 - Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking
HB 4337 - Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration
HB 4339 - Changing the local school board election from the Primary to the General
HB 4376 - Say No to Good Old Boy Governance
HB 4406 - Relating to formerly incarcerated individuals voting rights
HB 4408 - To adjust the percent retained by the clerk of the county commission for funding election administration, infrastructure, and security, and other county clerk purposes
HB 4417 - Relating to polling locations
HB 4435 - Increasing the percentage of precincts to be audited during the election canvass
HB 4444 - Convention of states delegates have penalties for deviating from what they were sent to convention for
HB 4447 - Prohibiting the delivery of unsolicited absentee ballot applications to any person who has not specifically requested one from the county clerk
HB 4457 - Permitting voters not affiliated with a major political party to vote the ballot of that political party in a primary election.
HB 4469 - Establish residency requirements for county surveyor be a resident of the state and provide exemption for holding more than one office.
HB 4470 - Relating to requiring election officials to capture and publish ballot images, and provide voters with the ability to affix a unique mark on their ballot to identify and verify their ballot cast in a statewide election in West Virginia
HB 4522 - Banning Foreign-backed spending on State Ballot Issues
HB 4523 - To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election
HB 4525 - To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections
HB 4526 - Provisions for election observers during any election and at any voting or ballot-reviewing and ballot-counting location within West Virginia
HB 4547 - To remove barriers to voting for persons with disabilities
HB 4600 - Require all ballots for primary and general elections be received not later than the close of the polls on election day.
HB 4638 - Relating to registration of voters and voluntary registration of organ donors
HB 4689 - Relating to allowing localities contiguous to the border of West Virginia to join the state via local elections
HB 4691 - Relating to election integrity
HB 4709 - Relating to changing the process of election litigation
HB 4710 - Changing the limit on switching parties before filing to run for office from 60 days to 180 days prior to an election.
HB 4744 - To update and reflect current inflation rate for all County elected positions
HB 4751 - Relating to the time and place of holding primary elections
HB 4764 - Disallow candidates for office if back taxes are owed
HB 4788 - Allow school board members to run for the state legislature
HB 4848 - Requiring certain disclosures of election expenditures
HB 4864 - Providing for election reform and protections
HB 4865 - Providing for a program allowing election official trainees to be appointed as election officials
HB 4911 - Redefining political party
HB 4934 - Verification of voter’s physical address by Secretary of State
HB 4935 - Relating to requiring paper ballots in all elections
HB 5000 - Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration
HB 5023 - Relating to permitting a citizen of this state to vote in the election of a municipality in which the citizen does not reside
HB 5037 - Protecting our Republic Act
HB 5066 - Relating to prohibiting the release of addresses and names of employers of persons who make contributions to political elections
HB 5117 - Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from voting
HB 5127 - Allowing the Secretary of State’s office to transmit electronically the total ballots cast, counted, and rejected
HB 5133 - Permitting anyone age of 65 or older to vote absentee
HB 5147 - Requiring full text of proposed Constitutional amendments be included on official ballots
HB 5166 - To provide notice to any political committees violating the filing requirements prior to assessing any civil fines and giving the Secretary of State authority to grant additional time for compliance not to exceed an additional 14 days.
HB 5167 - Creating the Taxpayer Accountability for Public Service Act.
HB 5171 - Relating to salary schedule adjustments for elected county officials.
HB 5203 - To forbid any municipality from issuing an ID for the purposes of voting in a municipal election
HB 5217 - Providing for a filing fee for a write-in candidate
HB 5218 - Providing that the Secretary of State shall notify a respondent of an election law complaint
HB 5220 - Relating to clarifying persons permitted to be present in a polling place during an election period for non-voting activities that normally occur at that location
HB 5221 - Relating to increasing the civil penalties for failure to file required campaign finance reports
HB 5223 - Relating to requiring contact information for the chair of a political committee
HB 5224 - Creating a personal income tax credit for election officials in West Virginia.
HB 5225 - Relating to prohibiting any person to operate an unmanned aerial vehicle over a polling place on election day
HB 5228 - Relating to clarifying the definition of electioneering
HB 5231 - The purpose of this bill is to require counties to utilize separate voting machines from those used for voting in an election, and to require testing of the automatic tabulating equipment prior to its use in an election.
HB 5234 - Relating to requiring certain information with an absentee ballot
HB 5236 - The purpose of this bill is to ensure compliance with state law requiring ballot tabulating equipment to not be connected to the internet, by requiring random inspections by the Secretary of State, including all necessary reporting.
HB 5273 - Relating to campaign financial statements by candidates for municipal office
HB 5275 - Providing the circumstances that a qualified voter is authorized to vote an absentee ballot by mail
HB 5386 - Relating to candidate’s certificate of announcement.
HB 5401 - Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas
Energy (6 Bills)
HB 4038 - Relating generally to coal fired energy plants and wind power
HB 4120 - Productive Energy Site Reclamation Waiver
HB 4822 - To redirect data center tax revenue to PEIA, counties, and schools
HB 4985 - Relating to strategic and critical resources, state preemption of local regulation, and foreign ownership and restricted commerce entities
HB 5409 - Relating to the ownership of water and minerals in dissolved or undissolved form in produced liquids and solids related to oil and gas drilling.
HB 5411 - Establishing the Energy Freedom and Fairness Act
Environment (18 Bills)
HB 4107 - Relating to requiring disclosure of the lawful activity that is the basis of a permit application with the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 4120 - Productive Energy Site Reclamation Waiver
HB 4194 - Community Air Monitoring
HB 4516 - Enacting Water Quality Improvement Programs In Counties By Conservation Districts
HB 4529 - Relating to requiring local governments to provide matching funds for grants from the Reclamation of Abandoned and Dilapidated Properties Program
HB 4615 - Relating to public drinking water storage tanks
HB 4642 - Relating to establishing the West Virginia Clean Water Act of 2025
HB 4683 - Prevent depletion of groundwater and aquifers
HB 4696 - Authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to deposit funds granted pursuant to federal programs
HB 4805 - Relating to environmental clean-up for motor vehicle crashes
HB 4949 - Relating to Legislative Rules regarding chemicals of emerging concern
HB 5008 - Relating to a State Water Resources Management Plan
HB 5039 - Fueling Modern Life
HB 5262 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 5409 - Relating to the ownership of water and minerals in dissolved or undissolved form in produced liquids and solids related to oil and gas drilling.
HB 5414 - New Oil and Gas Well Plugging Assurance Act
HB 5415 - New and existing Orphan Well Prevention Act
HB 5513 - To prohibit cloud seeding in WV
Estates and Trusts (2 Bills)
HB 4452 - To remove Mortmain restrictions on religious organizations
HB 4850 - Providing online training for Executors/Executrix of an Estate
Ethics (1 Bills)
HB 5506 - Prohibiting Compensation for Lobbying on Behalf of a Foreign Adversary.
Finance and Administration (20 Bills)
HB 4029 - Require all public contracts be publicly advertised
HB 4057 - Reducing cost for Volunteer Fire and EMS supplies
HB 4079 - Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government
HB 4134 - To quantify fair workman compensation rates and more equitable method of tracking/billing for various classifications within volunteer fire departments and emergency rescue personnel
HB 4400 - All relating generally to procurement by state spending units and local fiscal bodies of technology and technical infrastructure products and services
HB 4476 - To provide for currency rounding on monetary transactions
HB 4586 - Relating to government procurement of electric vehicles
HB 4594 - Reorganization of the Executive branch
HB 4689 - Relating to allowing localities contiguous to the border of West Virginia to join the state via local elections
HB 4827 - Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees
HB 4854 - Prohibiting the state or any political subdivision from subsidizing any data center in West Virginia
HB 4856 - Requiring that all state agency P-card rebates received must go toward stabilizing the PEIA fund
HB 4960 - Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees
HB 5026 - Account for all federal unfunded mandates
HB 5081 - Related to establishing a free business registration holiday
HB 5134 - Small Business Investment Grant Fund
HB 5347 - Relating to eligibility requirements for allocation from the Fire Protection Fund
HB 5353 - To bring virtual currency kiosks within the purview of money transmission licensure and create disclosure requirements and daily transaction limitations for new and existing customers.
HB 5461 - Creating the “Financial Accountability Stable Token Act,” for financing and state payments
HB 5509 - Mountain Homes Act
Governor -- Bills Requested By (57 Bills)
HB 4015 - Tourism Development Act Credit.
HB 4017 - Faith Based Partnership
HB 4018 - Enhancing Flood Resiliency Disbursements
HB 4019 - Relating to Personal income Tax Reduction
HB 4020 - Removing Full Time Requirement for Health Officers
HB 4021 - Bring them Home Fund.
HB 4022 - CPS Allocation
HB 4023 - Relating to Updating Corporate Net Income Tax definitions
HB 4024 - Relating to Updating Personal Income Tax definitions
HB 4025 - Exempting certain employees from the classified civil service system
HB 4717 - Supplemental Appropriation for Rural Health Transformation Program
HB 4740 - Statutory Commitments in Rural Health Transformation Program
HB 4765 - Teacher, School Personnel, and State Police Pay Raise
HB 5210 - Comprehesive reform of the state’s water infrastructure systems.
HB 5276 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce-Division of Economic Development from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5277 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Health Facilities-Welch Community Hospital, William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, and Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5278 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services-Division of Human Services from the Unappropriated Balance
HB 5279 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Education-Hope Scholarship Program from Excess Lottery Surplus
HB 5280 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce-Workforce West Virginia from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5281 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce-Division of Forestry from the Unappropriated Balance
HB 5282 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Administration-Public Defender Services from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5283 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Adminstration-Travel Management from the Unappropriated Balance
HB 5284 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services-Adoption, Foster Care, and Adult Services from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5286 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security-Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance
HB 5287 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services-Child Support Enforcement Fund from Special Revenue
HB 5288 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture-West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund from Special Revenue
HB 5290 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Health-Laboratory Services Fund from Special Revenue
HB 5291 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Administration - Board of Risk and Insurance Management from Special Revenue.
HB 5292 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security - Bureau for Juvenile Services from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5293 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services - Community Mental Health Services from Federal Block Grants.
HB 5294 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services - Substace Abuse and Treatment from Federal Block Grants.
HB 5295 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services from the Unappropriated Balance.
HB 5296 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Governor’s Office - Civil Contingent Fund from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5297 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Health Facilities - William R. Sharpe Hospital from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5298 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Revenue- Alcohol Beverage Control Administration from Special Revenue.
HB 5299 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security - Correctional Units from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5300 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5302 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services- Foster Care from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5303 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance - Veterans’ Facilities Support Fund from Special Revenue.
HB 5304 - Supplemental Appropriation to Section 8. Awards for Claims Against the State.
HB 5305 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services from Federal Funds.
HB 5307 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Tourism- Division of Culture and History from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5308 - Supplemental Appropriation to the State Board of Education - Hope Scholarship Program from Lottery Surplus.
HB 5309 - Supplemental Appropriation Expiring Funds from Governor’s Office - Civil Contingent Fund and Appropriating to Governor’s Office - Civil Contingent Fund.
HB 5310 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Education - Hope Scholarship Program from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5311 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security - Office of the Secretary from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5312 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Homeland Security - Division of Emergency Management from the Unappropriated Balance.
HB 5313 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Administration - Office of the Secretary from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5315 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce - Division of Forestry from Federal Funds.
HB 5316 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce - Division of Economic Development from the Unappropriated Balance.
HB 5317 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce - Division of Natural Resources from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.
HB 5318 - Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce - State Parks and Recreation Endowment Fund from Special Revenue.
HB 5364 - Reforming Boards and Commissions
HB 5375 - Truancy Reform Act
HB 5381 - Relating to developing a comprehensive energy development policy and plan for the Office of Energy
HB 5412 - Future Ready Education Act
HB 5441 - Reforming State Personnel System
Health (137 Bills)
HB 4048 - To prohibit placement of children in unlicensed organizations
HB 4059 - To require hospitals and or Counties to report costs associated with illegal or undocumented immigrants
HB 4067 - 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
HB 4068 - Requiring Department of Health to report positive Alpha Gal tests to CDC
HB 4070 - Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity
HB 4073 - Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations
HB 4083 - Relating to Medical Professional Responsibility
HB 4089 - Preservation of hair during chemotherapy. Also known as the “Jessica Huffman Bill”
HB 4124 - To require baby food manufacturers to provide information about the quantity of or percentage of different types of heavy metals in baby food
HB 4146 - To require compulsory vaccinations for anyone employed by the public school system in this state.
HB 4150 - Pertaining to the right of lawful medical cannabis card holders, and their caregivers
HB 4168 - Relating to vaccine requirements
HB 4169 - Relating to mental health examination requirements.
HB 4196 - To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone
HB 4197 - Mandating health insurance coverage treatment of pediatric patients diagnoced with PANDAS or PANS
HB 4335 - Relating to Medicaid providers
HB 4336 - relating to standards for a medication-assisted treatment program.
HB 4344 - Unconscious patients in the ICU
HB 4348 - Relating to health insurance for living organ donors
HB 4351 - Creating a Public Awareness Campaign on the threat of mold in indoor environments
HB 4354 - Relating to necessity allowance
HB 4356 - Relating to permitting persons to refuse to participate in a irreversible transition surgery
HB 4359 - Exempt an existing hospital under certificate of need to move their facility up to 10 miles to a new location
HB 4371 - Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption
HB 4383 - West Virginia Clean Air in Schools Act of 2026
HB 4392 - Banning certain dyes from pharmaceutical products
HB 4394 - The 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.
HB 4403 - West Virginia Homeless Shelter Oversight & Safety Act
HB 4413 - Making syringe exchange service programs unlawful
HB 4458 - Creating Substance Abuse Intervention Act
HB 4459 - Relating to Kratom
HB 4462 - Prohibition on cell-cultured products
HB 4474 - Extending the Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date.
HB 4510 - Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity
HB 4539 - Requiring health insurers provide price information to consumers timely prior to rate change
HB 4542 - To extend conditional protection to employees of private child welfare agency or provider
HB 4554 - Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry
HB 4567 - To require that all in person and online Vape and vape products require an ID scan, similarly to prescription controlled substances and certain cold medicines.
HB 4589 - 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
HB 4599 - Relating to the WV Cares background check variance process
HB 4609 - Allowing Magistrates under certain circumstances to be able to order a mental evaluation
HB 4610 - Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act
HB 4626 - Relating to the establishment of a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine
HB 4629 - Relating to medical cessation treatment and research
HB 4638 - Relating to registration of voters and voluntary registration of organ donors
HB 4640 - Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration
HB 4641 - Relating to codifying the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches
HB 4666 - Require medical examiners to review medical and immunization records and document any immunizations or emergency countermeasures given within 90 days before their death
HB 4672 - Relating to access to original birth certificates to adopted adults or their lineal descendants
HB 4674 - Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients
HB 4681 - To create state civil liability for pharmaceutical companies for vaccine injuries from the Covid 19 vaccines
HB 4698 - Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices
HB 4703 - Improving Medicaid access to durable medical equipment
HB 4721 - Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration
HB 4733 - To mandate coverage for breastfeeding and lactation consultant services
HB 4747 - Creating the Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 4757 - Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments
HB 4772 - To ensure the integrity of West Virginia’s Medicaid program by requiring regular verification of enrollee status and prompt removal of deceased individuals from active Medicaid rolls
HB 4795 - Relating to changing circumstances for when a child may be removed from a foster home.
HB 4811 - Creating the False Claims Act
HB 4815 - Allow community health center to provide sign-on bonus
HB 4821 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program
HB 4826 - Relating to petition for involuntary treatment for drug and alcohol abuse
HB 4853 - Relating to hospitals establishing protocols for providing trauma informed care to patients
HB 4873 - To remove the 2 year timeframe for medical malpractice suits to be filed only for individuals who were minors when they had their procedures performed
HB 4899 - 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
HB 4900 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 4915 - Sudden Death Reporting and Stransparency Act
HB 4917 - Relating to the termination of the authority’s certificate of need program
HB 4982 - Make West Virginia Healthy Act of 2026
HB 4991 - West Virginia First Energy Act
HB 5004 - Relating generally to coverage of PANS and PANDAS.
HB 5015 - Relating to the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact
HB 5021 - Relating to the limited circumstances in which a registered nurse may administer anesthetics.
HB 5031 - To standardize reporting practices and improve forensic and public health research by including vaccination history in death investigations
HB 5034 - Relating to biometric privacy
HB 5054 - Relating to requiring the counties particpating in the QMHP Pilot Program to have at least one qualified mental health professional in each public school in that county.
HB 5057 - To create the Rural Mobile Health and Mental Health Access Act.
HB 5062 - To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act
HB 5068 - Professional firefighter cancer screening
HB 5071 - Creating the oral health and cancer rights act
HB 5077 - Related to Mental Health Protection Act
HB 5079 - Related to childcare workers
HB 5080 - Related to 12 weeks of paid leave
HB 5085 - Related to troubled teen industry
HB 5092 - Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis
HB 5093 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 5096 - Relating to removing services from requiring a certificate of need
HB 5097 - Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate
HB 5102 - Relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering
HB 5103 - Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months
HB 5108 - To fund the Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative
HB 5111 - To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission.
HB 5112 - Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products
HB 5113 - Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician
HB 5119 - Establishing the right to contraception
HB 5120 - MAHA - Menstrual Labeling Act
HB 5121 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5122 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
HB 5135 - Establish Food Waste Task Force
HB 5144 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 5149 - Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board
HB 5153 - To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity
HB 5157 - Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment
HB 5158 - Men’s Equality Act
HB 5181 - Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities
HB 5184 - Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties
HB 5188 - Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons
HB 5213 - Relating to involuntary commitment process pilot program.
HB 5233 - Relating to living anatomical gift
HB 5238 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 5242 - State Living Donor Protection Act
HB 5254 - Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team
HB 5259 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 5260 - Relating generally to medical cannabis
HB 5266 - Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider
HB 5268 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 5324 - Amending the procedures for determining liability for exposures to asbestos or silica.
HB 5325 - Creating an emeritus license status for retired 2 physicians, podiatric physicians and physician assistants who meet eligibility criteria.
HB 5327 - West Virginia ALS Care Services Act
HB 5328 - Relating to regulatory classification of bars, taverns, and restaurants.
HB 5330 - Allow expedited partner treatment for bacterial vaginitis
HB 5333 - To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients
HB 5378 - Modifying the requirements for compulsory childhood immunizations to provide for exemptions based on religious and philosophical objections
HB 5379 - To require payment by insurers directly to the out-of-network emergency medical services agency and the prompt payment of clean claims.
HB 5425 - Relating to acquisitions of properties by land reuse agencies and urban renewal authorities.
HB 5433 - Require all state‑regulated health insurance plans to provide meaningful coverage for hearing aids and to cover at least one annual audiological evaluation.
HB 5437 - Creating the Vape Safety Act
HB 5440 - Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection
HB 5442 - Relating to training on the uses and indications of certain drugs for pregnant women.
HB 5447 - Changes to the requirements for do not resusitate orders.
HB 5459 - Relating to a tax on managed care organizations
HB 5470 - Relating to financial or product assistance for prescription drugs
HB 5476 - Require monitoring of electronic records maintained by hospitals.
HB 5482 - Protecting patient access to clinician-administered medications.
HB 5483 - Relating to financial assistance available for a prescription drug
HB 5523 - Relating to establishing minimum requirements for discharge of women in later stages of pregnancy from hospitals.
Human Rights (16 Bills)
HB 4098 - To restore the right of a person to sit on a jury has been restored upon expungement of one’s record
HB 4143 - Relating to Women’s Bill of Rights
HB 4190 - Relating to the restoration of civil rights
HB 4524 - Relating to prohibitions on contracting with companies that boycott Israel
HB 4682 - Fourth Amendment Restoration Act
HB 4931 - Relating to the protection of firearm owner privacy and prohibition of registries
HB 4947 - Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines
HB 5003 - Relating to the process for involuntary hospitalization
HB 5011 - Allow removal of complaints from HRC to Circuit Court
HB 5090 - To eliminate all vaccine requirements for school children
HB 5113 - Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician
HB 5140 - Employer discriminatory practices
HB 5154 - Relating to statute of limitations for discrimination
HB 5251 - Adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act and WV Fair Housing Act
HB 5491 - Relating to open captioning for motion pictures
HB 5502 - Amending the Human Rights Act to allow regulation of traits associated with a person’s race only for nondiscriminatory purposes
Human Services (49 Bills)
HB 4022 - CPS Allocation
HB 4072 - Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership
HB 4074 - 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
HB 4132 - Provide programs to educate senior citizens
HB 4192 - Establishing the Tri-Share Child Care Assistance Program
HB 4196 - To offer long-acting reversible contraception to patients receiving methadone and suboxone at the treatment facility for the methadone and suboxone
HB 4375 - To require the Bureau for Social Services to file the Social Services Manual as a legislative rule
HB 4436 - To require children interviewed by Child Protective Services have their interviews conducted at a child advocacy center
HB 4438 - Relating to Sexual Abuse Prevention Screening, Hiring and Dismissal Requirements
HB 4580 - Relating to the establishment of a pilot program for the use of mobile devices in child abuse and neglect investigations.
HB 4581 - Relating to monthly status meeting of county entities
HB 4602 - Relating to requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot program to contract for supplemental caseworker aide services for the Bureau for Social Services
HB 4603 - Relating to the creation of the process of obtaining and adjudicating a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition
HB 4604 - Relating to relating abuse and neglect cases
HB 4614 - Relating to statewide prevention plan.
HB 4616 - Relating to the imposition of a time limitation on disposition decisions in child abuse and neglect proceedings
HB 4620 - Relating to clothing and necessity allowance.
HB 4622 - Relating to the Office of the Inspector General
HB 4659 - Transfer oversight of childcare from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Education
HB 4664 - Relating to increasing compensation for panel attorneys.
HB 4726 - Housing assistance for children aging out of foster care system
HB 4767 - Relating to requiring the Bureau for Medical Services to file a legislative rule
HB 4786 - Clarifies the minimum hours of attendance necessary for child subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance
HB 4796 - Addressing the placement of foster children and creating a central reception center and emergency resource homes.
HB 4869 - Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia.
HB 4984 - relating to narrowing the scope of prior authorization mandates for FDA approved antipsychotics
HB 4986 - Relating to child welfare
HB 5035 - Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations
HB 5048 - To ensure virtual instruction for foster students while in temporary placement facilities.
HB 5068 - Professional firefighter cancer screening
HB 5074 - Relating to changing the allocation of proceeds in the Medical Cannabis Program Fund.
HB 5093 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 5118 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 5144 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 5204 - Relating to establishing the Child Captivity Prevention Act.
HB 5216 - Relating to community paramedicine programs
HB 5238 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 5256 - Relating to wages of persons with disabilities
HB 5265 - Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools
HB 5267 - Providing for the reintegration of inmates in correctional facilities
HB 5343 - Establish a medical Adult day care pilot program in Fayette County.
HB 5345 - To require child care subsidy payments in West Virginia to be based on enrollment rather than daily attendance
HB 5349 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 5367 - Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act
HB 5407 - The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the participation of mental health providers in juvenile abuse and neglect cases.
HB 5429 - Luggage for foster care children transfered between homes
HB 5430 - Relating to pharmaceutical benefits
HB 5449 - Repealing the Addiction Treatment Pilot Program
HB 5498 - Relating to liability protection of a multidisciplinary team member.
Insurance (40 Bills)
HB 4061 - Requiring PEIA and other health insurance providers to provide payment parity for certain services
HB 4075 - Insurance must cover Bioidentical hormones as they do pharmaceutical one
HB 4089 - Preservation of hair during chemotherapy. Also known as the “Jessica Huffman Bill”
HB 4117 - Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers
HB 4142 - Better protect citizens in the event of a car accident with an uninsured motorist
HB 4197 - Mandating health insurance coverage treatment of pediatric patients diagnoced with PANDAS or PANS
HB 4472 - Clarifying that commercial real property insurance policies may be underwritten for less than replacement cost value of the insured property
HB 4539 - Requiring health insurers provide price information to consumers timely prior to rate change
HB 4565 - Exempt those with 25 years holding an insurance license from attaining additional CEUs
HB 4569 - Updating law regarding prior authorizations
HB 4627 - Mandate free cancer screenings for professional firefighters.
HB 4724 - Relating to placing a cap on insurance copays
HB 4733 - To mandate coverage for breastfeeding and lactation consultant services
HB 4747 - Creating the Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation Act
HB 4760 - Requiring insurance to cover certain nutrition and dietary needs
HB 4781 - Insurance coverage for laser hair removal
HB 4783 - Providing equal share of funds from the fire and casualty premium tax to all departments
HB 4810 - Relating to dental health care service plans
HB 4840 - Exempt federally qualified health centers from having to obtain a prior authorization for behavioral health services
HB 4877 - Relating to modifying the priority of insurance coverage for drivers of certain vehicles to make consistent with federal law
HB 4965 - Relating to patient-centered treatment flexibility within teh Public Employees Insurance Agency
HB 5004 - Relating generally to coverage of PANS and PANDAS.
HB 5006 - Relating to clarifying secondary sources are not the law and public policy of West Virginia in certain instances
HB 5062 - To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act
HB 5102 - Relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering
HB 5109 - Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers
HB 5122 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
HB 5141 - Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies
HB 5149 - Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board
HB 5185 - Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures
HB 5241 - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening
HB 5263 - Relating to use of credit scores in applications for insurance
HB 5349 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 5365 - Relating to the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers providing services to the Public Employees Insurance Agency.
HB 5379 - To require payment by insurers directly to the out-of-network emergency medical services agency and the prompt payment of clean claims.
HB 5392 - Public Adjuster Professional Standards Reform Act
HB 5462 - Relating to Mine Subsidence
HB 5505 - Relating to minimum limits for motor vehicle insurance coverage
HB 5521 - Relating to public adjusters
HB 5527 - Relating to Wellness Reimbursement Programs
Juveniles (40 Bills)
HB 4044 - To require hair follicle drug testing of parents or guardians in cases of substantiated child abuse or neglect of a minor
HB 4085 - To increase penalties for selling or facilitating the sale of alcohol to a minor.
HB 4352 - Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children
HB 4357 - Modifying the time to terminate a foster care arrangement
HB 4358 - Establishing pilot program for Public Guardian Ad Litem Services
HB 4378 - Increasing circumstances where the Department of Human Services is required to seek termination of parental rights
HB 4388 - Creating a special revenue account to expand in-state residential treatment capacity for children
HB 4390 - Relating to the temporary payment to a kinship parent of a subsidy equal to that of a foster parent
HB 4391 - Relating to the imposition of a time limitation on disposition decisions in child abuse and neglect proceedings
HB 4393 - Requiring the development and implementation of statewide prevention plan
HB 4407 - Relating to loss of parental rights after a third petition for a child’s removal
HB 4412 - Require certain websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content
HB 4511 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 4512 - Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits.
HB 4528 - Regarding release of juvenile following assault of law enforcement or first responder
HB 4532 - Providing identification documents to homeless youth
HB 4545 - To 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.
HB 4580 - Relating to the establishment of a pilot program for the use of mobile devices in child abuse and neglect investigations.
HB 4581 - Relating to monthly status meeting of county entities
HB 4614 - Relating to statewide prevention plan.
HB 4617 - Relating to requiring the Bureau of Social Service to file a legislative rule.
HB 4618 - Relating to the temporary payment to a kinship parent of a subsidy equal to that of a foster parent.
HB 4620 - Relating to clothing and necessity allowance.
HB 4621 - Relating to requiring the circuit court to make certain designated findings of fact and conclusions of law in its juvenile child abuse and neglect orders
HB 4712 - Increasing the criminal penalties for DUI causing death to be known as “Baylea’s Law.”
HB 4730 - Developing a Contiuum of Independent Living and Transitional Support Services for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
HB 4782 - Sustainable Child-serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act
HB 4884 - To recalculate how child support payments are made
HB 4888 - To modify child support payments for working parents
HB 4964 - To establish a phased implementation of a Community-Based Child Welfare system in West Virginia.
HB 5042 - Prohibit a child in the custody of the state from placement in facility not approved by Department of Human Services
HB 5048 - To ensure virtual instruction for foster students while in temporary placement facilities.
HB 5107 - 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
HB 5128 - To amend the section of child marriage under 18
HB 5189 - Relating to the use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations
HB 5258 - Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee
HB 5321 - To guarantee timely educational evaluations and continuity of services for children entering foster care.
HB 5407 - The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the participation of mental health providers in juvenile abuse and neglect cases.
HB 5443 - Relating to the reimbursement for panel attorneys and guardian ad litems
HB 5516 - Require abuse and neglect case appeals to be processed within 6 months
Labor (11 Bills)
HB 4152 - Workforce-Education Partnership Act
HB 4153 - West Virginia Skilled and Ready to Work Internship and Apprenticeship Incentive Act
HB 4159 - Relating to the hiring requirements of West Virginia law enforcement employees
HB 4350 - Removing certain requirements from WV Jobs Act
HB 4548 - WV building and constructions trades code enforcement West Virginia First
HB 4549 - Local Government Freedom Act
HB 4876 - Relating generally to child labor
HB 5001 - Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace
HB 5083 - Related to paid leave
HB 5116 - Creating the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act
HB 5424 - Verifying legal employment status of workers.
Legal Gaming (4 Bills)
HB 4343 - Individual Gaming Restrictions
HB 5395 - Authorize raffle licensees to offer alcoholic beverages as raffle prizes.
HB 5396 - Allow the use of credit cards for raffles.
HB 5464 - West Virginia First Live Racing Jobs Act of 2026
Legislature (17 Bills)
HB 4108 - Increasing transparency in the apportionment process for congressional and legislative districts
HB 4137 - Updating the West Virginia Law Institute
HB 4158 - Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators
HB 4166 - Require Governor to provide at least five days notice to all state legislators when calling a Special Session
HB 4167 - Relating generally to initiating a West Virginia legislative redistricting commission.
HB 4174 - Creating a standing legislative oversight committee to approve all West Virginia Economic Development contracts.
HB 4409 - Two party consent for legislative offices
HB 4541 - To require DOH, when abandoning a right of way, to notify the legislative representatives in the county or counties in which this right of way is located via email and first class mail in addition to publication in the newspaper
HB 4594 - Reorganization of the Executive branch
HB 4837 - Establish time limits on Legislators becoming lobbyists
HB 4870 - Determining campaign finance report deadlines during legislative sessions
HB 5250 - Clarifying that the legislature cannot impede the judiciary’s duties to assure the fair administration of justice when it or a member of a legislative body is a party in a proceeding relating to legislative actions
HB 5252 - Creating the Independent Redistricting Commission of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance
HB 5272 - Appropriations from the state Revenue Shortfall Fund and the Income Tax Reserve Fund be utilized to initiate investments in flood prevention initiatives to reduce the impact of severe flooding
HB 5337 - Relating to protection of personal information
HB 5390 - Establishing fiscal notes submitted to the Legislature constitute sworn testimony
HB 5507 - Establish a Process for the Selection and Oversight of Delegates for a West Virginia Article V Convention Delegation.
Legislature--Rule Making (135 Bills)
HB 4200 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the One-Stop Shop Permitting Program.
HB 4201 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Technology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cyber reporting.
HB 4202 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mine subsidence insurance.
HB 4203 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the public entities insurance program.
HB 4204 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Preferred Medical Liability and High Risk Medical Liability Program.
HB 4205 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to alternative emission limitations during startup and shutdown operations.
HB 4206 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to ambient air quality standards.
HB 4207 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources.
HB 4208 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from combustion of solid waste.
HB 4209 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
HB 4210 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4211 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a promulgate a legislative rule relating to cross-state air pollution to control annual nitrogen oxides emissions, annual sulfur dioxide emissions, and ozone season nitrogen oxides emissions.
HB 4212 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Water and Waste Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hazardous waste management system.
HB 4213 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements governing water quality standards.
HB 4214 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to carbon dioxide sequestration fee schedule.
HB 4215 - Department of Health Rules Bundle
HB 4216 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lead abatement licensing
HB 4217 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services.
HB 4218 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services.
HB 4219 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure.
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.
HB 4221 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to basic public health service standards for local boards of health
HB 4222 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to diabetes self-management education.
HB 4223 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the exemption of Certificate of Need.
HB 4224 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home licensure.
HB 4225 - Relating 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.
HB 4226 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences.
HB 4227 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to syringe services program licensure.
HB 4228 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure.
HB 4229 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Health Facilities to promulgate a legislative rule relating to patient rights at state-operated mental health facilities.
HB 4230 - Relating to to authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to law enforcement training and certification standards.
HB 4231 - Relating to authorizing the Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the fire code.
HB 4232 - Relating to authorizing the State Emergency Response Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency planning and community right-to-know.
HB 4233 - Relating to authorizing the West Virginia State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia State Police Career Progression System
HB 4234 - Relating to authorizing the West Virginia State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to contracted police or security services.
HB 4235 - Relating to authorizing the West Virginia State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia State Police Member Grievance Procedure.
HB 4236 - Relating to authorizing the Alcohol Beverage Control Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to private clubs.
HB 4237 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Financial Institutions to promulgate a legislative rule relating to residential mortgage lenders, brokers, and loan originators.
HB 4238 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Financial Institutions to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the installation, operation, and sharing of customer bank communication terminals and the utilization of nonexclusive access interchange system.
HB 4239 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Financial Institutions to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the notice and treatment of joint accounts.
HB 4240 - Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Fintech Regulatory Sandbox Program.
HB 4241 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fingerprinting requirements for applicants for insurance producer license and insurance adjuster license.
HB 4242 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to premium financing for life insurance for college students.
HB 4243 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mass marketing of property and liability insurance.
HB 4244 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the advertisement of accident and sickness insurance.
HB 4245 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to insurance adjusters.
HB 4246 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to insurance holding company systems.
HB 4247 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to credit for reinsurance.
HB 4248 - Relating to authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mental health parity.
HB 4249 - Relating to authorizing the Lottery Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to interactive wagering.
HB 4250 - Relating to authorizing the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to thoroughbred racing.
HB 4251 - Relating to authorizing the Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Advance Deposit Account Wagering.
HB 4252 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the valuation of timberland and managed timberland.
HB 4253 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the valuation of public utility property for ad valorem property tax purposes.
HB 4254 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a tax credit for providing vehicles to low-income workers.
HB 4255 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Downstream Natural Gas Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit.
HB 4256 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to High-Wage Growth Business Tax Credit.
HB 4257 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to commercial patent incentives tax credits.
HB 4258 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to on-line bingo and raffles.
HB 4259 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Soft Drinks Tax.
HB 4260 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to income tax credits for property taxes paid.
HB 4261 - Relating to authorizing the Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to preneed cemetery companies.
HB 4262 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to motor vehicle equipment.
HB 4263 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to compulsory motor vehicle liability insurance.
HB 4264 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special purpose vehicles.
HB 4265 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration forms and tags for registration, taxation, and control of dogs.
HB 4266 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to grades and standards for apples.
HB 4267 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public markets.
HB 4268 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the licensing of livestock dealers.
HB 4269 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Grade A pasteurized milk.
HB 4270 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to select plant-based derivatives and select plant-based derivative products of hemp and kratom.
HB 4271 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to agritourism.
HB 4272 - Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exempted dairy farms and milk and milk products processing.
HB 4273 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Architects to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration of architects.
HB 4274 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Architects to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for registration of architects.
HB 4275 - Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the establishment and qualification of third-party dispute mechanisms.
HB 4276 - Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses.
HB 4277 - Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the prevention of unfair or deceptive acts or practices in home improvement transactions.
HB 4278 - Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the prevention of unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the sale of damaged goods or damaged products.
HB 4279 - Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to administration of preneed burial contracts.
HB 4280 - Relating to authorizing the State Auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards for requisitions for payment issued by the state officers on the Auditor.
HB 4281 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to qualifications, training, examination, and certification of instructors in barbering, hair styling, nail technology, aesthetics, waxing, and cosmetology.
HB 4282 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to operational standards for schools of barbering, cosmetology, hair styling, nail technology, and aesthetics.
HB 4283 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to barber apprenticeship.
HB 4284 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to to waxing specialists.
HB 4285 - Relating to authorizing the Contractor Licensing Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act.
HB 4286 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing.
HB 4287 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensed professional counselor license renewal and continuing professional education requirements.
HB 4288 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to marriage and family therapist licensing.
HB 4289 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to funeral directors, embalmers, apprentices, courtesy card holders, and funeral establishment requirements.
HB 4290 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Landscape Architects to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees.
HB 4291 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Landscape Architects to promulgate a legislative rule application for waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals.
HB 4292 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, and continuing education for physician assistants.
HB 4293 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education for physicians and podiatric physicians.
HB 4294 - Relating to authorizing the Medical Imaging Technologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners.
HB 4295 - Relating to authorizing the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education.
HB 4296 - Relating to authorizing the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of ethics.
HB 4297 - Relating to authorizing the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exempt purchasing.
HB 4298 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education and competence.
HB 4299 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board of Optometry.
HB 4300 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to oral pharmaceutical certificates.
HB 4301 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to schedule of fees.
HB 4302 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure by reciprocity.
HB 4303 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education.
HB 4304 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing procedures for osteopathic physicians.
HB 4305 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to osteopathic physician assistants.
HB 4306 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency temporary permits to practice during States of Emergency or States of Preparedness.
HB 4307 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure and practice of pharmacy.
HB 4308 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to mail-order and non-resident pharmacies.
HB 4309 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating toregistration of pharmacy technicians.
HB 4310 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pharmacist recovery networks.
HB 4311 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to immunizations administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians.
HB 4312 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pharmacy permits.
HB 4313 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pharmacists.
HB 4314 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to inspections.
HB 4315 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general provisions for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
HB 4316 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Physical Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general provisions for athletic trainers.
HB 4317 - Relating to authorizing the Psychologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements for licensure as a psychologist or a school psychologist.
HB 4318 - Relating to authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the occupancy of customer-provided conduit.
HB 4319 - Relating to authorizing the Real Estate Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing real estate brokers, associate brokers, and salespersons, and the conduct of brokerage business.
HB 4320 - Relating to authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to loan and grant programs under the Help America Vote Act for the purchase of voting equipment, election systems, software, services, and upgrades.
HB 4321 - Relating to authorizing the Senior Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to shared table initiative for senior citizens.
HB 4322 - Relating to authorizing the Board of Social Work to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the fee schedule.
HB 4323 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Economic Development to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Tourism Development Districts.
HB 4324 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rules for the certification of managed timberland.
HB 4325 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to child labor.
HB 4326 - Relating to authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the submission and approval of a comprehensive Mine Safety Program for coal mining operations in the state of West Virginia.
HB 4327 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to small arms hunting.
HB 4328 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to wildlife rehabilitation.
HB 4329 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special boating.
HB 4330 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to defining terms used in hunting and trapping.
HB 4331 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to prohibitions when hunting and trapping.
HB 4332 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to deer hunting.
HB 4333 - Relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to special migratory game bird hunting.
HB 4334 - Relating to authorizing the Rehabilitation Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Ron Yost Personal Assistance Services Act Board
Local and Special Laws (7 Bills)
HB 4046 - Relating to Rural Recycling Co-ops
HB 4663 - To repeal the requirement for a special license for a multi-vendor private fair and festival.
HB 4702 - Prohibiting municipal zoning regulations from imposing certain minimum lot sizes
HB 4738 - County authority to impose a vacancy tax
HB 4754 - Prohibiting municipal zoning regulations from imposing certain minimum lot sizes
HB 4797 - To create the Charlie Kirk Memorial First Amendment Freedom Act.
HB 5486 - Relating to adding Juneteenth to the list of legal holidays and providing when it should be observed if it falls on a Sunday.
Magistrates (2 Bills)
HB 4540 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
HB 5471 - To provide pay increases to members of the judiciary
Military and Veterans (10 Bills)
HB 4141 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 4364 - Relating to concurrent juvenile jurisdiction on military installations
HB 4366 - Relating to military interpersonal violence
HB 4368 - Relating to military connected students
HB 4451 - Relating to establishing the Veteran Justice Act allowing conditional opportunity for veterans to avoid a record conviction
HB 4742 - Creating a poster providing contact information and resource information on veteran benefits and services
HB 4879 - To revise and update all provisions of state code relating to the West Virginia State Guard
HB 4880 - Protection of deployed service members
HB 5352 - Prohibit the WV National Guard to be sent into combat OVERSEAS without a congressional Declaration of War.
HB 5389 - Veterans Housing Redevelopment Tax Credit Act
Motor Vehicles (45 Bills)
HB 4036 - Relating to stricter enforcement for parking in a handicapped designated spot
HB 4053 - To establish the blue envelope program.
HB 4069 - To remove the helmet law in West Virginia.
HB 4099 - To disallow the recognition of a drivers license issued by another state to any undocumented immigrant
HB 4127 - Repealing section of code authorizing additional registration fees for alternative fuel vehicles
HB 4141 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 4161 - Providing authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days
HB 4175 - To repeal the requirement for automobile inspection.
HB 4180 - Provide volunteer firemen free license plates and vehicle registration
HB 4349 - Provide volunteer firemen free license plates and vehicle registration
HB 4437 - To allow Gold Star parents to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use.
HB 4441 - To require anyone operating a vehicle that requires a CDL in WV to be able to read and speak the English language.
HB 4489 - Authorizing the DMV to issue certain vital records in the custody of the state registrar
HB 4502 - Create license plate for autism awareness
HB 4518 - Require DMV and Parkways Auhority to coordinate records for plate transfers
HB 4527 - Allow DMV to accept auto-renewals for vehicle registration
HB 4540 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
HB 4558 - Create mechanism for towing companies in WV to quickly access owner information.
HB 4577 - Relating to driver licenses; which relates to reciprocity agreements with
foreign countries
HB 4639 - Repeal code relating to inspection of vehicles
HB 4668 - To make any accident involving a driver that is driving on a revoked/suspended license or is driving while unlicensed is automatically at fault for the accident
HB 4694 - To require that when a person’s driver’s license expires, the bar code on the back of the license expires as well.
HB 4718 - Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act
HB 4719 - To eliminate the process of vehicle inspection in West Virginia
HB 4728 - To require motorists traveling 10 mph or more below the speed limit to activate hazard lights.
HB 4755 - Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses
HB 4756 - To provide automatic treble damages anytime a non-English speaking commercial truck driver causes an accident in WV
HB 4778 - Relating to Drivers License Address Requirements
HB 4805 - Relating to environmental clean-up for motor vehicle crashes
HB 4838 - To increase the annual registration fees for electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles.
HB 4874 - Combining rolls of the Assessor’s Office and Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 4881 - Relating to obtaining title to abandoned or junked motor vehicles abandoned on the property or place of business of an automobile dealer
HB 4882 - Repealing vehicle inspection sticker requirements in WV
HB 4972 - To expressly prohibit motorcycle lane splitting and lane filtering in West Virginia while preserving a motorcycle’s full use of a lane
HB 4976 - To add definitions for special plates of Class G Vehicles
HB 5024 - Relating to the Waiving of Certain DMV Fees for Volunteer Firefighters
HB 5139 - Authorizing municipal fire departments specialized license plates
HB 5323 - Relating to indexing of license and stamp fees
HB 5376 - Requiring auto accident toxicology test be performed
HB 5388 - Creating the official motorist services logo signing program
HB 5423 - To ensure that illegal aliens do not vote or operate a motor vehicle in the state.
HB 5455 - Relating to special license plates
HB 5487 - Relating to optional limits of uninsured and underinsured motor vehicle coverage
HB 5505 - Relating to minimum limits for motor vehicle insurance coverage
HB 5514 - To eliminate Real ID
Municipalities (33 Bills)
HB 4056 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 4178 - To challenge the necessity of needing a municipal or county license as well as a WV State license for doing business
HB 4338 - Relating to Eminent Domain
HB 4362 - Relating generally to the Municipal Bond Commission governance
HB 4404 - Increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and Allowing fire departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials
HB 4443 - Allow municipality to order suspension of driver’s license when defendant fails to pay traffic fine
HB 4495 - To allow municipalities to regulate sober living housing in the cities
HB 4537 - Requiring municipalities take actions when potential customers apply for water and sewer service.
HB 4540 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
HB 4623 - Require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases
HB 4652 - Exempts from local taxes and fees for a municipal Utility in which the members are elected
HB 4675 - Relating to “Rain Tax”
HB 4679 - To prohibit counties, towns and municipalities from using taxpayer dollars to hire lobbyists to represent them at the State level
HB 4702 - Prohibiting municipal zoning regulations from imposing certain minimum lot sizes
HB 4707 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4711 - Accessory dwelling units
HB 4737 - Relating to municipal regulation of stairway requirements in certain apartment buildings.
HB 4754 - Prohibiting municipal zoning regulations from imposing certain minimum lot sizes
HB 4776 - Hotel occupancy tax rate
HB 4801 - Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties
HB 4816 - Relating to municipal fire protection fees
HB 4825 - Authorizing municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
HB 4831 - To regulate outdoor advertisements
HB 4833 - To remove the cap for municipalities on their stabilization fund
HB 4924 - To prohibiting municipalities participating in the home rule program from establishing on discrimination ordinances that include protected classes in addition to what is designated in state statute.
HB 5009 - Relating to zoning ordinances and their effects
HB 5064 - Relating to municipalities that have failed to complete required financial audits for multiple years
HB 5106 - Relating to the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District
HB 5319 - Camping ban on certain public property.
HB 5326 - Raise cost of living threshold for retired municipal police officers
HB 5331 - To provide special consideration for municipalities to be allowed to join NPFRS for their paid firefighters
HB 5422 - Relating to Home Rule Reform
HB 5425 - Relating to acquisitions of properties by land reuse agencies and urban renewal authorities.
Natural Resources (33 Bills)
HB 4030 - Standardize gas and oil contracts
HB 4109 - Removing cap on numbers of wells operators required to pay annual oversight fee
HB 4126 - To modify the funding distribution to the state park endowment fund and the State Parks Operational Fund
HB 4129 - Relating to the prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures.
HB 4149 - Relating to warrantless entry of private lands
HB 4155 - To include all West Virginia correctional classifications in the Natural Resources Officer Pension System.
HB 4176 - To allow youth and handicapped hunters to harvest a buck deer or doe during youth/handicapped special hunts
HB 4355 - To create a new hunting license stamp for upland game bird
HB 4424 - To allow landowners to pay hunters to hunt their property
HB 4494 - Providing an exemption for a non-resident landowner, their spouse and their children from the requirement of purchasing a non-resident hunting hicense while hunting on their land in this state.
HB 4504 - Relating to rules for hunting antlered deer
HB 4513 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4559 - To eliminate the restriction of hunting bears over bait
HB 4560 - Move marina gas tax proceeds to DNR Law enforcement division
HB 4676 - End open fields doctrine
HB 4677 - To require a warrant for DNR officials or officers to enter onto any private property
HB 4683 - Prevent depletion of groundwater and aquifers
HB 4686 - Providing that a hunting license is only required for public land
HB 4688 - Eliminate the ban on baiting in all counties for all game animals
HB 4704 - To exempt daylight fluorescent outer garments from sales
HB 4716 - To enhance the flexibility, responsiveness, and economic development potential of the Industrial Access Road Fund
HB 4867 - To clarify the process of royalty payments for wells in this state.
HB 4958 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 5002 - In cases of mine rescues, designate miners as first responders
HB 5025 - Allowing the burning of obsolete farm structures.
HB 5030 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 5055 - Changing the expiration date on Hunting and Fishing licenses to one year after purchase
HB 5088 - Relating to Natural Resource Police Officer Retirement
HB 5160 - Prohibition of geoengineering
HB 5174 - Legalize use of a 4" pan to pan for gold in the state
HB 5340 - Establishing a new classification for managed timberland leased for substantial income
HB 5398 - Relating to dates and deposits for Oil and Gas Well Plugging
HB 5439 - Creaing a pollinator planting program
Professions and Occupations (23 Bills)
HB 4088 - Relating to certified public accountants
HB 4123 - To provide a pay increase for the West Virginia Capitol Police and support staff of Capitol police
HB 4148 - Requiring all salesperson licensee to submit proof of legal citizenship in the U.S.
HB 4182 - To expand the EMS retirement system
HB 4473 - Relating to the West Virginia Supreme Court’s power to promulgate rules allowing for the limited practice of law by nonlawyers
HB 4492 - Limiting broker deposits to $500
HB 4510 - Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity
HB 4561 - Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office.
HB 4591 - To recognize School Athletic Directors who have achieved a nationally recognized professional certification through the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA).
HB 4647 - Change the term of the office of sheriff from 4 years to 6 years
HB 4806 - To raise the salary of Sheriffs
HB 4819 - Relating to use of criminal records as disqualification from authorization to practice particular profession
HB 4820 - Relating to Good Samaritan Law.
HB 4902 - Place Correction and Rehab state workers into a separate category from other state workers and increase their salary scales.
HB 4970 - To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing
HB 4989 - Professional Firefighter cancer screening
HB 5073 - To allow for the transfer of seniority for deputy sheriffs with conditions
HB 5086 - Relating to peer support services
HB 5168 - To increase funding for EMS first responders.
HB 5182 - Relating generally to authorizing security personnel employed by the State Treasurer to carry concealed weapons while performing his or her official duties
HB 5428 - Relating to providing traumatic event counseling for peace officers.
HB 5465 - Allow anyone with a master’s degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney
HB 5489 - Modifying the definition of contractor.
Public Safety (87 Bills)
HB 4051 - Permitting certain nonviolent offenders to be able to carry firearms.
HB 4052 - To enhance the safety of first responders at emergency scenes (Halo Law)
HB 4053 - To establish the blue envelope program.
HB 4093 - To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.
HB 4095 - To remove qualified immunity from officers serving no-knock warrants
HB 4114 - Relating to oversight of West Virginia Fusion Center
HB 4122 - To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present
HB 4124 - To require baby food manufacturers to provide information about the quantity of or percentage of different types of heavy metals in baby food
HB 4125 - Eliminate double taxation on foreign income at the state level
HB 4128 - Determining Bond requirements for certain crimes
HB 4168 - Relating to vaccine requirements
HB 4342 - Relating to state contracts regarding homeless
HB 4345 - Relating to the preservation of missing persons records and evidence
HB 4386 - Remove age limitations for fire service
HB 4387 - Relating to information submitted by medical examiner to aid in identification of human remains
HB 4402 - Relating to school protection officers
HB 4404 - Increase the allowance for volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and Allowing fire departments to make an expenditure for educational and training supplies and fire prevention promotional materials
HB 4412 - Require certain websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content
HB 4413 - Making syringe exchange service programs unlawful
HB 4439 - Creating a special court cost fee on certain criminal convictions dedicated to the emergency medical services equipment and training fund
HB 4446 - Firefighter Pilot Program
HB 4449 - Permitting cameras in classrooms
HB 4464 - Relating generally to Underground Facilities Damage prevention
HB 4512 - Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits.
HB 4513 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4554 - Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry
HB 4567 - To require that all in person and online Vape and vape products require an ID scan, similarly to prescription controlled substances and certain cold medicines.
HB 4576 - Relating to the makeup of the State Police Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations Unit
HB 4601 - Relating to the Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations Unit
HB 4613 - The State Resiliency Office
HB 4627 - Mandate free cancer screenings for professional firefighters.
HB 4628 - Protecting Everyone from Excessive Police Surveillance (PEEPS) Act
HB 4630 - Pedophilia Prosecution Act
HB 4678 - Relating to Constitutional Carry
HB 4685 - Relating to Capitol Carry
HB 4692 - Eliminate Governor’s Power for Shutdown
HB 4700 - To require railroad companies to provide alternative entry and exit ways
HB 4707 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4750 - Clarifying where convicted sex offenders may reside.
HB 4769 - Creating plans to protect West Virginia from major crises
HB 4798 - Requiring teachers to wear a “mobile alert button” for emergency situations, to be known as “Alyssa’s Law.”
HB 4812 - To ensure that West Virginia law enforcement entities are not compelled or commandeered by federal authorities to conduct activities that violate our citizens’ Constitutional rights
HB 4829 - Make speeds that exceed 30MPH over the speed limit reckless driving
HB 4831 - To regulate outdoor advertisements
HB 4836 - Prohibiting non-service animals in stores that sell food
HB 4839 - Relating to compensation for sworn members of the WV State Police
HB 4845 - Prohibiting entry by illegal aliens
HB 4852 - Relating to regulation of foods
HB 4863 - The West Virginia Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act
HB 4897 - Utility Credit for Private Public-Access Recreation Spaces
HB 4912 - Regarding emergency ambulance fees for owners of collocated rental units
HB 4926 - Second Amendment Reaffirmation and Protection Act
HB 4962 - Drug-Related Nuisances
HB 5019 - Relating to requirements for deputy sheriffs
HB 5025 - Allowing the burning of obsolete farm structures.
HB 5029 - Relating to Volunteer Fire Departments
HB 5030 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 5032 - Prevention of data center collection of citizen data
HB 5094 - Prohibiting the private ownership or operation of a prison
HB 5125 - Relating to fines for local fire departments
HB 5164 - Relating generally to the state fire marshal
HB 5165 - To create the West Virginia Rural Property Safety and Clean Land Act.
HB 5170 - Relating to Capitol Carry
HB 5175 - Relating to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System.
HB 5176 - Relating to creating the animal abuse database within the West Virginia State Police.
HB 5182 - Relating generally to authorizing security personnel employed by the State Treasurer to carry concealed weapons while performing his or her official duties
HB 5204 - Relating to establishing the Child Captivity Prevention Act.
HB 5242 - State Living Donor Protection Act
HB 5322 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5326 - Raise cost of living threshold for retired municipal police officers
HB 5335 - Relating to Animal Abuse
HB 5371 - Relating to allowing the carry of firearms on Capitol grounds and in buildings, with exceptions
HB 5372 - Creating WV Constitutional Carry Act of 2025
HB 5403 - Relating to fire safety requirements for agritourism businesses.
HB 5413 - Relating to the Central Abuse Registry
HB 5419 - Providing protection for search and rescue group dogs
HB 5421 - To require drones used by state and county personnel to be produced in the United States
HB 5428 - Relating to providing traumatic event counseling for peace officers.
HB 5437 - Creating the Vape Safety Act
HB 5445 - Revising the statute authorizing the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to run background checks.
HB 5446 - Relating to the jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshal
HB 5448 - Revising the statute relating to the state emergency response commission meetings.
HB 5451 - Relating to survivor’s benefit payment for first responders
HB 5454 - Relating to the select committee for the West Virginia Fusion Center
HB 5472 - Formally recognize Mine Rescue teams as first responders in West Virginia.
HB 5479 - Relating to prohibiting concealment of a law-enforcement officer’s identity or authority.
HB 5481 - To ban ultraprocessed foods (exempt drinks) from schools in WV
Public Service Commission (27 Bills)
HB 4011 - Relating to advanced recycling.
HB 4012 - Relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state
HB 4026 - Relating to expanding the requirements for integrated resource plans utility companies must file with the Public Service Commission
HB 4033 - Require that a public service district board that represents more than one community have at least one member from each community
HB 4050 - Establishing reporting requirements for utilities that are members of a regional transmission organization
HB 4058 - Assure West Virginians proper access to water and sewage service at reasonable rates
HB 4110 - Creating the WV Energy Efficiency Jobs Creation Act
HB 4111 - Establishing a community solar program for subscribers to gain credits against their utility bills
HB 4195 - Placing a two year a cap on electrical utility rates
HB 4379 - To enable the Public Service Commission to authorize accelerated rate recovery for advanced transmission technology projects
HB 4385 - Cap a utility provider’s rates increases at no more than 5% per year
HB 4389 - Relating to requiring the Public Service Commission to prepare and submit a report to the Governor and the Joint Committee on Government and Finance including the effects of a performance-based rate making system on West Virginia regulated utilities and rates charged to ratepayers
HB 4464 - Relating generally to Underground Facilities Damage prevention
HB 4471 - Approved sewage systems for rental property
HB 4491 - Relating to certification by the Public Service Commission of advanced small modular and micro nuclear reactors
HB 4508 - Public Utility Stability Act.
HB 4556 - Eliminate net metering in WV
HB 4635 - To require Public Service Commission to hear requests for rate adjustments from public electrical utilities and issue a recommendation to legislature
HB 4653 - Changing rates of public utilities
HB 4669 - Disallowing flouride to be added to public water systems
HB 4828 - Change the requirement for posting public notices at the state and federal level for PSDs.
HB 4862 - Relating to the responsibility of a board of a public service district to cooperate with a county commission in the sale of assets of a public service district that is being dissolved, sold or merged with another public service district.
HB 4891 - To require all utility companies to absorb the costs of maintenance, upgrades, and repairs for their pipes, cables, utility poles, electrical lines, and other necessities without increasing rates or costs to consumers/customers.
HB 4896 - Requiring the three Commissioners of the State Public Service Commission to be elected positions
HB 5187 - Relating to the members of the Public Service Commission
HB 5202 - Relating to permitting access to funding for public water utilities subject to the Public Service Commission’s jurisdiction
HB 5475 - To make the Public Service Commission an elected position
Real and Personal Property (31 Bills)
HB 4340 - Relating to exemptions of property in bankruptcy proceedings
HB 4432 - Establishing certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties
HB 4484 - To expand each county commission’s ability to sell or lease property.
HB 4493 - The West Virginia Real Estate Wholesaling Accountability Act
HB 4499 - Relating to eminent domain compensation
HB 4550 - To require the state and/or its agents to provide their appraisal to landowners involved in eminent domain
HB 4590 - Awarding attorneys fees to prevailing party in eminent domain proceeding
HB 4636 - Change the title from Salesperson in State Code to Sales agent for thoses who sell real estate.
HB 4649 - Amending the duties of a purchaser to secure a deed
HB 4706 - Establishing a three month time limit for a purchaser of real property to have a deed recorded.
HB 4731 - Relating to establishing the By-Right Housing Development Act to streamline the approval process for development when that proposed development meets all the rules for such development in
a given community
HB 4732 - Relating to zoning ordinances
HB 4802 - Relating to credit for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 4908 - To require a guilty verdict, before any property of any type are taken from an individual
HB 4910 - To oppose the use of eminent domain in West Virginia for private corporation benefit
HB 4912 - Regarding emergency ambulance fees for owners of collocated rental units
HB 4922 - To exempt all WV residents 65 and older from personal property taxes and real estate property taxes effective Jan 1, 2027
HB 4928 - To end double taxation on rental properties
HB 5027 - Relating to eminent domain and use of property taken.
HB 5059 - Relating to authorizing cultural heritage institutions to claim title to certain property in possession of the cultural heritage institution after providing certain notices.
HB 5070 - To permit and require real estate brokerage firms to pay realtors leaving the commission they are entitled on open contracts.
HB 5193 - To eliminate adverse possession from the state code of West Virginia
HB 5197 - Relating to Civil Action to Set Aside a Tax Deed
HB 5215 - Relating generally to limiting landowner liability for the purpose of operation of all-terrain vehicles.
HB 5255 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 5334 - Relating to lease termination and tenant privacy
HB 5357 - Tree removal at state expense
HB 5385 - To repeal laws relating to adverse possession
HB 5393 - Relating to resident protection
HB 5405 - Designate landowners who own 1,000 or more acres within West Virginia as institutional landowners.
HB 5509 - Mountain Homes Act
Records and Papers (10 Bills)
HB 4140 - To allow counties to post legal ads on their website in lieu of print in local newspapers
HB 4163 - FOIA Database
HB 4171 - Gender identification on forms of ID
HB 4468 - Relating to confidentiality of court files and law-enforcement records
HB 4531 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 4534 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4598 - Change Audit Log for annual subscription with Secretary of State
HB 4672 - Relating to access to original birth certificates to adopted adults or their lineal descendants
HB 5408 - Relating to personal information disclosure
HB 5512 - Relating to Land Records
Retirement (27 Bills)
HB 4086 - West Virginia Teachers Retirement system
HB 4154 - To require all West Virginia public employee retirement agencies to provide an annual cost of living adjustment for all retirees who have been retired for over ten (10) years
HB 4155 - To include all West Virginia correctional classifications in the Natural Resources Officer Pension System.
HB 4182 - To expand the EMS retirement system
HB 4506 - Allowing members of State Police retirement system to use accrued leave as credit towards retirement
HB 4514 - Modify determination of high 3 years for Sheriff’s Retirement System
HB 4562 - Change required service from 25 to 20 years for eligibility for minimum 1k retirement annuity
HB 4803 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 4804 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 4887 - Authorizing sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of services
HB 4889 - To give state retirees a 10% increase
HB 4936 - Removing the 140 day a year cap placed on the amount of days a year a retired teacher can work before having their retirement penalized
HB 4969 - To increase the pay for retired state employees by 5% over three years beginning in 2025
HB 5046 - Modifying the West Virginia State Police Retirement System
HB 5051 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 5052 - To provide a 5% cost of living increase for state retirees who make under $60,000 per year
HB 5056 - Permit beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of the beneficiary’s retirement
HB 5088 - Relating to Natural Resource Police Officer Retirement
HB 5150 - Establishing the West Virginia Secure Choice retirement program
HB 5175 - Relating to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System.
HB 5230 - Modifying retirement and disability benefits for dependents of State Police
HB 5326 - Raise cost of living threshold for retired municipal police officers
HB 5360 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System
HB 5391 - Amending the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
HB 5467 - To increase the Deputy Sheriff retirement multiplier from 2.75 to 3.0
HB 5508 - Relating to Capitol Police Retirement
HB 5524 - To permit paid county EMS workers to join the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
Roads and Transportation (49 Bills)
HB 4007 - Relating to industrial access roads
HB 4010 - Providing a statutory program for loaning financial assistance to local airports for airplane hangar construction in this state
HB 4040 - Non-State Owned Roads Improvement Act
HB 4069 - To remove the helmet law in West Virginia.
HB 4183 - Exempt non-profits from certain road sign fees
HB 4363 - Establishing a program for camera assisted speed enforcement in active work zones on public highways
HB 4410 - Relating to special stops required for on-track equipment
HB 4419 - Requiring certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased
HB 4420 - Relating generally to West Virginia Parkways Authority.
HB 4421 - Providing guidelines for the West Virginia Parkways Authority to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments
HB 4423 - Eliminating specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement
HB 4426 - Ensure State Road Construction Account funds are in addition to general highways funds provided to the DOT districts
HB 4430 - Eliminating the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2025
HB 4431 - Requiring the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority
HB 4480 - Relating to Access Management and Entrances to State Highways
HB 4503 - Prohibiting driving slow in left lane except under certain circumstances
HB 4518 - Require DMV and Parkways Auhority to coordinate records for plate transfers
HB 4530 - Creating Retail Impact Intersection Improvement Fund
HB 4536 - Allow students who enroll and successfully complete a driver’s education course to waive testing at the DMV
HB 4538 - Regarding limited use of equipment to enforce speed limits in Division of Highways work zones
HB 4541 - To require DOH, when abandoning a right of way, to notify the legislative representatives in the county or counties in which this right of way is located via email and first class mail in addition to publication in the newspaper
HB 4563 - Require EZ Pass transponder be registered to person, not vehicle
HB 4612 - Issuance of new DMV titles under certain requirment
HB 4700 - To require railroad companies to provide alternative entry and exit ways
HB 4716 - To enhance the flexibility, responsiveness, and economic development potential of the Industrial Access Road Fund
HB 4719 - To eliminate the process of vehicle inspection in West Virginia
HB 4723 - Make it illegal to operate a “squatted” vehicle on West Virginia roads.
HB 4743 - Relating generally to asphalt grindings or millings from any WVDOH Right of Way
HB 4763 - Relating generally to “Flagger Ahead” signs and flaggers on public roads in the State of West Virginia.
HB 4808 - Federally Approved Project Delivery Methods for Airport Capital Improvement Projects
HB 4825 - Authorizing municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
HB 4831 - To regulate outdoor advertisements
HB 4835 - Adjusting the timing of traffic lights on divided highways
HB 4841 - Allow county commissions to formally petition the Division of Highways regarding the repair of local roads
HB 4992 - Relating to the creation of an alternative procurement procedure called the “general contractor/construction manager” procedure, and authorizing the Division of Highways to promulgate rules thereabout.
HB 4993 - Relating to authorizing green flashing warning lights on Division of Highways vehicles, and other equipment at the discretion of the Commissioner of Highways.
HB 4994 - Relating to utility lines on the Division of Highways rights of way
HB 5013 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts
HB 5018 - All lanes, cul-de-sacs, dead end roads, city streets and non-through routes with an ADT of less than 10 per .1 mile be eliminated from WVDOH maintenance. ROW will be maintained on paper only and county WVDOH budgets will not be reduced.
HB 5030 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 5040 - Establishing Comprehensive Highway Paving Plan
HB 5098 - Creation of the MOBILE ID.
HB 5137 - Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees
HB 5161 - To create the West Virginia Rural Mobility and Transportation Access Act.
HB 5191 - To place rumble strips on all double-yellow lined roads and highways.
HB 5201 - Requiring DOH public notification of traffic change 48 hours in advance
HB 5211 - Relating to the identification of noncitizen residents on a driver’s license.
HB 5348 - Relating to pedestrians standing in or near the right of way
HB 5358 - Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions
Rules (1 Bills)
HB 4983 - Authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification of a microgrid district or certification as a high impact data center
Salaries (5 Bills)
HB 4360 - Relating generally to allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals discretion to create uniform pay scales for all levels of judicial support staff.
HB 4890 - A 10% raise to non-uniformed corrections workers
HB 4973 - Relating to raising the state minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 beginning in school year 2026-2027
HB 5178 - To provide asset preservation for minors who earn income from artistic or creative services for us of their name, image, or likeness
HB 5485 - Relating to increasing the state minimum wage.
State Personnel (17 Bills)
HB 4123 - To provide a pay increase for the West Virginia Capitol Police and support staff of Capitol police
HB 4131 - Create a Police Officer’s Bill of Rights
HB 4144 - To require the state to pay all state employees a $500 Holiday Bonus (Christmas) if state surplus revenues exceed 100$ million annually
HB 4442 - To require state employees making over $75,000 base salary are to become “at will employees of the state”, while all employees making under $75,000 base salary will have the rule of 80 retirement reinstated and accrued sick leave be used to extend service years upon retirement.
HB 4456 - Relating to clarification of a law enforcement agency and cooperation between law enforcement agencies and personnel of states bordering this state
HB 4553 - To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.
HB 4657 - Allow the use of unused employee sick time in retirement calculation
HB 4773 - To increase the COLA by 15% for all retired state employees
HB 4797 - To create the Charlie Kirk Memorial First Amendment Freedom Act.
HB 4839 - Relating to compensation for sworn members of the WV State Police
HB 5043 - Raising salaries for school service personnel
HB 5052 - To provide a 5% cost of living increase for state retirees who make under $60,000 per year
HB 5056 - Permit beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of the beneficiary’s retirement
HB 5230 - Modifying retirement and disability benefits for dependents of State Police
HB 5358 - Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions
HB 5360 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System
HB 5511 - To allow money paid to state employees to go to their estate if they pass away before their retirement date
Taxation (122 Bills)
HB 4015 - Tourism Development Act Credit.
HB 4024 - Relating to Updating Personal Income Tax definitions
HB 4028 - Relating to sales tax on construction materials
HB 4031 - Require all tax assessments be done on a periodic schedule
HB 4035 - Relating to providing a credit against the business and occupation tax imposed on coal-fired electric generating units to help off-set environmental compliance costs
HB 4039 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 4042 - To eliminate property taxes on the farm structures of any farmer producing at least 40% of their income from their farm
HB 4043 - To give an additional $20,000 dollar Homestead Exemption on the property tax of any West Virginia citizen farmer that produces more than 50% of his or her income from their farm
HB 4047 - To remove sales tax for food bought in vending machines
HB 4064 - Relating to the rate of tax on motor vehicles
HB 4094 - To eliminate the dog tax
HB 4101 - To amend the state tax code to provide an exemption from state income tax for families with four or more children
HB 4112 - Provide tax credit for homeschool students
HB 4113 - Emergency Medical Services Sales Tax
HB 4125 - Eliminate double taxation on foreign income at the state level
HB 4177 - Limit property tax increases on certain individuals
HB 4184 - To exempt safe gun storage devices from state sales tax
HB 4187 - Require Certified Fire Investigators to be classified as professionals under the State Sales and Usage Tax exemptions
HB 4188 - Provide tax credit incentive to businesses and individuals that donate to pregnancy/birth centers
HB 4191 - Increase the tax credit for employers providing child care for employees.
HB 4347 - To remove income tax from overtime work
HB 4353 - Prohibit municipalities from collecting B&O taxes on projects that are funded by state or federal government programs
HB 4367 - Allowing for surplus money collected above voter approved excess levy requests to remain with specific county and placed in general fund
HB 4369 - Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Hygiene and Infant Products
HB 4371 - Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption
HB 4373 - To implement a Property Tax Poverty Exemption - School Excess Levy
HB 4380 - B&O Tax Reform
HB 4397 - Relating to privilege tax on holding a license to operate interactive wagering
HB 4398 - Relating to privilege tax on holding a license to operate sports wagering
HB 4399 - Relating to disabled veteran taxpayers
HB 4401 - To modify the calculation of the taxable wage base.
HB 4416 - Classifying forestry equipment for levy purposes
HB 4418 - Creating the “The Tax Efficiency Act of 2026”
HB 4445 - Relating to sales and service tax exemption for small arms and small arms accessories
HB 4454 - To double the homestead tax exemption
HB 4455 - Relating to taxation
HB 4479 - Timber Innovation and Manufacturing Boost for Economic Revitalization Act
HB 4482 - Updating the state tax rates relating to e-cigarettes, e-cigarette liquids, vapor products, vaping systems, and components or accessories for such devices, increasing penalties for violations
HB 4487 - Allow for monthly payments on property taxes
HB 4488 - To reduce West Virginia sales tax on gasoline and diesel to zero, and make up difference with increase in sales tax equivalent to rate of tax
HB 4500 - Permitting the Berkeley County Commission to levy a special district excise tax for the benefit of the Berkeley County Economic Opportunity Development District under certain conditions.
HB 4507 - Relating to allowing a personal income tax exemption for First Responders
HB 4513 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4517 - To maximize the utility and accessibility of West Virginia’s child care tax credit for employers
HB 4555 - Eliminate sales tax on tax preparation services
HB 4564 - Increasing the Homestead Property Tax Exemption
HB 4571 - Taxpayer Protection Act
HB 4582 - Related to the authority of sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes
HB 4585 - Relating to the Volunteer Firefighter Tax Credit Act
HB 4597 - Increasing Homestead Exemption
HB 4625 - Relating to quit claim deeds
HB 4645 - Institue a 50% reduction in the property tax paid by childcare facilities.
HB 4665 - Relating to pension income of retired law enforcement officers and first responders
HB 4675 - Relating to “Rain Tax”
HB 4684 - Eliminate all state and county subsidies or tax breaks for solar compounds or wind compounds or other renewable energy corporations
HB 4699 - To create the Substance Abuse Recovery Tax Credit
HB 4713 - To provide an exemption of taxes on income derived from tips
HB 4716 - To enhance the flexibility, responsiveness, and economic development potential of the Industrial Access Road Fund
HB 4729 - To require the Secretary of the State’s Office to issue Tax ID numbers when registering a business in lieu of the State Tax Department.
HB 4734 - Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Hygiene and Infant Products
HB 4738 - County authority to impose a vacancy tax
HB 4741 - To require operators of gas and oil wells to withhold royalty taxes due from the lease holder and remit said withholdings to the appropriate County Tax Office.
HB 4766 - Change the Homestead Exemption
HB 4776 - Hotel occupancy tax rate
HB 4809 - Caregiver Tax Credit
HB 4813 - Exempting from the sales tax all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment
HB 4823 - Allowing for taxes to be paid quarterly
HB 4846 - Relating to valuation of specialized high-technology property
HB 4858 - Determine credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment
HB 4883 - Abolish the tax on overtime pay
HB 4885 - To remove the state tax on gasoline at the pumps
HB 4895 - Relating to establishing an unborn child tax credit
HB 4906 - To exempt individuals over 70 from real estate taxes beginning tax year 2027
HB 4913 - Working Farm Property Tax Protection Act
HB 4916 - Eliminate state taxes on tobacco, vape, alcohol products, and gambling
HB 4927 - To eliminate the Personal Income tax in WV
HB 4928 - To end double taxation on rental properties
HB 4929 - Creating the Truth in Taxation Act
HB 4930 - Creating exemption from sales tax for diapers and baby items
HB 4933 - Relating to the tax exemption of a citizen who paid to have a cat or dog spayed or neutered
HB 4954 - To provide a reduction of the tax for companies who have 75% or more of their workforce as West Virginia residents
HB 4963 - Relating to establishing an additional modification reducing federal adjusted gross income relating to taxes on tips and overtime
HB 4968 - To exempt the first $20,000 of earnings from the state income tax for West Virginia residents
HB 4977 - Relating to authorizing municipalities to adopt an ordinance to recover demolition costs as special tax assessments
HB 4981 - Relating to designating a psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients committed to it from the state or from state hospitals a state-designated hospital for purposes of the statute
HB 5007 - Creating an income tax deduction for gym memberships
HB 5014 - Modification to real property tax requirements for farm structures
HB 5030 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 5065 - Relating to hotel occupancy tax.
HB 5076 - Related to free filing of state tax returns
HB 5078 - Related to child tax credit
HB 5084 - Related to refundable child tax credit
HB 5095 - Providing tax credits to provide vehicles to certain persons
HB 5114 - Remove sales tax on gun safes and certain firearm safety devices
HB 5159 - Relating to withholding tax on income of nonresidents from natural resources royalty payments
HB 5162 - Relating to the sales of tax liens
HB 5169 - To provide a tax credit for new parents in this state in certain circumstances.
HB 5177 - Sales tax rebate for qualifying materials used in the construction of modest homes of 1 600 square feet or less
HB 5195 - Related to the authority of sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes.
HB 5197 - Relating to Civil Action to Set Aside a Tax Deed
HB 5224 - Creating a personal income tax credit for election officials in West Virginia.
HB 5235 - Back to school sales tax holiday
HB 5240 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 5262 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 5269 - The Young Professional Tax Credits
HB 5329 - Expand the usage of impact fees for county development
HB 5340 - Establishing a new classification for managed timberland leased for substantial income
HB 5350 - Exempting from sales and use tax materials and appliances used in the manufacture of certain manufactured homes.
HB 5359 - To provide a funding stream from property taxes collected as a result of new high voltage electric transmission projects being constructed to lower electric rates to benefit West Virginians
HB 5373 - To modify the process of holding charitable raffles
HB 5382 - Relating to the Neighborhood Investment Program.
HB 5389 - Veterans Housing Redevelopment Tax Credit Act
HB 5397 - Remove sales tax from firearm suppressors.
HB 5399 - Relating to providing a tax credit related to the establishment and operation of biochar manufacturing facilities
HB 5402 - Relating to creating a Distribution Center Refundable Toll Payments Tax Credit Act.
HB 5432 - Relating to establishing disaster repair and recovery effort tax credit for taxpayers subject to the severance and business privilege tax in certain circumstances
HB 5459 - Relating to a tax on managed care organizations
HB 5460 - Construction Cost Relief Act
HB 5474 - Gateway to the Gorge Outdoor Recreation Industry Act
HB 5519 - Relating to creating the “West Virginia Tax Neutrality Act”
HB 5522 - Relating to creating an annual sales tax holiday for the sales of feminine hygiene products.
HB 5526 - Clarifying Purchaser Requirements for Tax Abandoned Land Auctions by the Auditor
Unemployment Compensation (2 Bills)
HB 4978 - Permitting Workforce WV to actively reach out to Unemployment Compensation filers with available jobs that fit their prior job history and salary range
HB 5237 - Maintaining the solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund
Uniform Laws (1 Bills)
HB 5419 - Providing protection for search and rescue group dogs
Utilities (23 Bills)
HB 4111 - Establishing a community solar program for subscribers to gain credits against their utility bills
HB 4156 - To amend the law regarding sewer systems.
HB 4460 - Relating to balancing urban and rural sewage treatment needs
HB 4508 - Public Utility Stability Act.
HB 4509 - Relating to restoring local jurisdiction to state political subdivisions over certain electric power facilities.
HB 4635 - To require Public Service Commission to hear requests for rate adjustments from public electrical utilities and issue a recommendation to legislature
HB 4652 - Exempts from local taxes and fees for a municipal Utility in which the members are elected
HB 4653 - Changing rates of public utilities
HB 4669 - Disallowing flouride to be added to public water systems
HB 4745 - Relating to electric rates
HB 4753 - Prohibit public utilities from making political or charitable contributions
HB 4824 - Relating to utility rate increases
HB 4894 - Relating to utility affordability and economic competitiveness
HB 4897 - Utility Credit for Private Public-Access Recreation Spaces
HB 4971 - Relating to requiring electric substations near industrial parks for certain high voltage transmission lines
HB 4991 - West Virginia First Energy Act
HB 5041 - Electric Utility Meter choice
HB 5129 - Change the powers of the West Virginia Water Development Authority regarding funding of Infrastructure Projects
HB 5152 - Relating to the disconnection of residential utility during a State of Emergency
HB 5172 - Relating to establishing the Low Earth Orbit Broadband Internet Connection Fund.
HB 5383 - To require real estate agents to disclose water and sewer utility rates, if applicable, at the point of sale
HB 5410 - Relating to requiring quarterly reporting by water and wastewater utilities that are political subdivisions of the state to their governing bodies.
HB 5525 - To create the “Southern West Virginia Clean Water Fund” to be used in water emergencies or to upgrade infrastructure so residences can get clean water.
Workers Compensation (8 Bills)
HB 4134 - To quantify fair workman compensation rates and more equitable method of tracking/billing for various classifications within volunteer fire departments and emergency rescue personnel
HB 4377 - Relating to eligibility for workers' compensation benefits by requiring blood test after traumatic injury to determine intoxication
HB 4595 - Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants
HB 4901 - Modifying the Occupational Pneumoconiois award categories for Worker’s Compensation
HB 5145 - Relating to portable benefit plans
HB 5456 - Relating to disability pay for West Virginia State Troopers
HB 5457 - To allow partial credits for times of disability service in the CPRB for Troopers.
HB 5515 - Relating to modernizing and updating workers’ compensation statutes.
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