Bill Status - 2026 Regular Session
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Delegate Funkhouser sponsored 162 bills
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 4003 | WV First Small Business Growth Act | Pending | 3rd Reading | 02/13/26 | |
| HB 4009 | Relating to the creation of the Portable Benefit Account Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| 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. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4099 | To disallow the recognition of a drivers license issued by another state to any undocumented immigrant | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4137 | Updating the West Virginia Law Institute | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| 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 | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4190 | Relating to the restoration of civil rights | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4191 | Relating to providing child care generally | BL | Governor | ||
| HB 4405 | Expanding the reasons that an executive director may create, merge, or dissolve a public defender corporation | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| HB 4412 | Require certain websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4415 | Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4418 | Creating “The Tax Efficiency Act of 2026” | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2026) | ||
| HB 4434 | Increasing penalties for Corruption | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4435 | Increasing the percentage of precincts to be audited during the election canvass | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4444 | Convention of states delegates have penalties for deviating from what they were sent to convention for | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4447 | Prohibiting the delivery of unsolicited absentee ballot applications to any person who has not specifically requested one from the county clerk | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| 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 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4449 | Permitting cameras in classrooms | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4454 | To double the homestead tax exemption | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4455 | Relating to taxation | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4456 | Relating to clarification of a law enforcement agency and cooperation between law enforcement agencies and personnel of states bordering this state | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 4459 | Relating to Kratom | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/18/26 |
| HB 4460 | Relating to balancing urban and rural sewage treatment needs | Pending | House Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4461 | Establishing limitations on billing practices of Internet or telecommunications providers that fail to provide subscribed customers service for five or more days | Pending | Senate Energy, Industry and Mining | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 4463 | Relating to the Board of Sanitarians | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 14, 2026) | ||
| 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 | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4478 | Relating to racing facilities | Pending | House Legal Services | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4484 | To expand each county commission’s ability to sell or lease property. | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 10, 2026) | ||
| 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. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4499 | Relating to eminent domain compensation | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4501 | Relating to Dietitian Licensure Compact | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| HB 4523 | To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4525 | To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4550 | To require the state and/or its agents to provide their appraisal to landowners involved in eminent domain | Pending | House Government Administration | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4555 | Eliminate sales tax on tax preparation services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4578 | To provide more local control over educational decisionmaking, differentiation of funding for counties, and to address operational efficiencies within education. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4582 | Related to the authority of sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4583 | Victims of Communism Day | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4584 | Market pay for Teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4585 | Relating to the Volunteer Firefighter Tax Credit Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4586 | Relating to government procurement of electric vehicles | Pending | House Government Administration | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4593 | Allow for PE classes to be optional for students who can demonstrate 5 or more weekly hours of outside physical activity | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4594 | Reorganization of the Executive branch | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4600 | Require all ballots for primary and general elections be received not later than the close of the polls on election day. | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| HB 4603 | Relating to the creation of the process of obtaining and adjudicating a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition | Pending | Concurrence | 03/13/26 | |
| HB 4606 | Relating to the meaning of residence for the purpose of bail | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4625 | Relating to quit claim deeds | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4647 | Change the term of the office of sheriff from 4 years to 6 years | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4648 | To ensure felonies or violent misdemeanors are not eligible for personal recognizance discharge from jail | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4649 | Amending the duties of a purchaser to secure a deed | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4650 | Modifying the process by which a Defendant is entitled to a trial by jury in municipal court | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4651 | Relating to unfair or unconscionable debt collection practices | Pending | House Courts | Committee | 02/06/26 |
| HB 4653 | Changing rates of public utilities | Pending | House Energy and Public Works | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4661 | Allowing death penalty for intentionally killing law-enforcement officer or first responder in line of duty | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4673 | To make gold, silver, and crypto currency legal tender in WV | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4678 | Relating to Constitutional Carry | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4680 | Prohibit the shutdown of churches or places of worship | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4686 | Providing that a hunting license is only required for public land | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4687 | To create the State Bank of West Virginia | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4689 | Relating to allowing localities contiguous to the border of West Virginia to join the state via local elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4709 | Relating to changing the process of election litigation | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/26 |
| HB 4710 | Changing the limit on switching parties before filing to run for office from 60 days to 180 days prior to an election. | Pending | Concurrence | 03/13/26 | |
| HB 4718 | Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4725 | Clarifying the disposition of animal subject to animal cruelty treatment. | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 4746 | Relating to establishment of the First Amendment Preservation Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4755 | Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4758 | Raise the Penalties for Murder and attempted Murder | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4761 | Raise the Penalties for Murder and attempted Murder | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4762 | Providing veterinarian and veterinary technician reciprocity | Pending | House Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4787 | The Anti-Terrorism Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4788 | Allow school board members to run for the state legislature | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4793 | Creating the Barber Apprentice Program | Pending | Concurrence | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 4809 | Caregiver Tax Credit | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4810 | Relating to dental health care service plans | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4811 | Creating the False Claims Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4839 | Relating to compensation for sworn members of the WV State Police | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4842 | Relating to civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4845 | Prohibiting entry by illegal aliens | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4847 | Local Shares teacher and school personnel pay | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4848 | Requiring certain disclosures of election expenditures | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4850 | Providing online training for Executors/Executrix of an Estate | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4857 | Increasing penalty for transporting telecommunicating devices into jails. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4858 | Determine credits for qualified rehabilitated buildings investment | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4859 | Allowing a county board of education participating in the operation of a multicounty vocational center to withdraw | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4865 | Providing for a program allowing election official trainees to be appointed as election officials | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4878 | Relating to deadly force | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4909 | Relating to consumer protection from fraudulent telephone solicitation | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4932 | Providing for the use of “A.C.” as a name ending for an accounting corporation. | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| HB 4950 | To establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 2026 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4996 | Relating to bail in cases involving terroristic threats to schools or children | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 4997 | Relating to residency restrictions for persons convicted of terroristic threats | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5001 | Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5006 | Relating to clarifying secondary sources are not the law and public policy of West Virginia in certain instances | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5007 | Creating an income tax deduction for gym memberships | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5008 | Relating to a State Water Resources Management Plan | Pending | House Energy and Public Works | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5009 | Relating to zoning ordinances and their effects | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5013 | Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts | Pending | House Energy and Public Works | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 5025 | Allowing the burning of obsolete farm structures. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5026 | Account for all federal unfunded mandates | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5027 | Relating to eminent domain and use of property taken. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5031 | To standardize reporting practices and improve forensic and public health research by including vaccination history in death investigations | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5034 | Relating to biometric privacy | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5035 | Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5059 | Relating to cultural heritage institutions | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/05/26 |
| HB 5105 | Relating to financial exploitation of a person in recovery | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/26 |
| HB 5182 | Relating generally to authorizing security personnel employed by the State Treasurer to carry concealed weapons while performing his or her official duties | BL | Governor | ||
| HB 5199 | Relating to county parks and recreation commission | Pending | House Local Government | Committee | 02/06/26 |
| HB 5203 | To forbid any municipality from issuing an ID for the purpose of voting in a municipal election | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/26 |
| HB 5217 | Providing for a filing fee for a write-in candidate | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5218 | Providing that the Secretary of State shall notify a respondent of an election law complaint | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5219 | Relating to defining residence for the purpose of registration and voting in West Virginia | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| 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 | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5221 | Relating to increasing the civil penalties for failure to file required campaign finance reports | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5222 | Providing for an increase service of process fees and fees in shipping and handling expenses for execution of service of process | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5223 | Relating to requiring contact information for the chair of a political committee | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5224 | Creating a personal income tax credit for election officials in West Virginia. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5225 | Relating to prohibiting any person to operate an unmanned aerial vehicle over a polling place on election day | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5226 | Providing that in no case shall a filing fee paid be returned to the candidate | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5227 | Relating to Secretary of State annual reports, fees, and veteran-owned business logotypes | Signed | Effective July 1, 2026 | ||
| HB 5228 | Relating to clarifying the definition of electioneering | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/26 |
| HB 5229 | Relating to filing of a fraudulent financing statement. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5234 | Relating to requiring certain information with an absentee ballot | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| HB 5273 | Relating to campaign financial statements by candidates for municipal office | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/26 |
| HB 5274 | Allowing the Secretary of State administer oaths and affirmations. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5275 | Providing the circumstances that a qualified voter is authorized to vote an absentee ballot by mail | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5329 | Expand the usage of impact fees for county development | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5341 | To create a domestic violence registry | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/26 |
| HB 5347 | Relating to eligibility requirements for allocation from the Fire Protection Fund | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5366 | Relating to rules governing the practice of law | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 5367 | Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5368 | Establish a registry for domestic violence offenders | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5383 | To require real estate agents to disclose water and sewer utility rates, if applicable, at the point of sale | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5391 | Amending the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5401 | Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas | Signed | Governor | 06/29/26 | |
| HB 5404 | Creating an Office of Entrepreneurship | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5406 | Relating to driving under the influence | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2026) | ||
| HB 5413 | Relating to the Central Abuse Registry | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/26 |
| HB 5423 | To ensure that illegal aliens do not vote or operate a motor vehicle in the state. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5427 | To prohibit the malicious publication of personally identifiable information with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, stalk, or facilitate harm. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5461 | Creating the “Financial Accountability Stable Token Act,” for financing and state payments | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| HB 5464 | West Virginia First Live Racing Jobs Act of 2026 | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/06/26 |
| HB 5477 | Relating to federal immigration enforcement. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| HB 5493 | Provide a penalty of chemical castration or surgical castration for sex abuse crimes against minors. | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5500 | To make allowances for bio-degradable farm/field products to escape the transport vehicle so to avoid potential fines | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5506 | Prohibiting Compensation for Lobbying on Behalf of a Foreign Adversary. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5510 | Eliminate the requirement for private wedding venues to own or lease 2 acres in rural location. | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 5532 | Prohibiting counties from double-taxing rental properties | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5534 | To reduce all titled vehicle personal property taxation values, except for mobile homes, from a Class IV assessment valuation to a Class II | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5535 | Relating to tow truck lighting | Pending | House Energy and Public Works | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5538 | To expand licensing opportunities and safety regulation in the esthetics industry | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5543 | Authorizing the State Treasurer to coordinate SMART529 program with federal Trump accounts | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5553 | Relating to participation in federal prescription drug pricing programs. | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5556 | Creating an external reference pricing pilot program for prescription drugs. | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5558 | To create the West Virginia Child Investment Account Matching Program. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5587 | To authorize cameras in school buses to send red light violators footage directly to the applicable law enforcement agency for ticketing and enforcement | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/05/26 |
| HB 5592 | Ivermectin over the counter | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5593 | Making ivermectin available over the counter in West Virginia | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5602 | Provide a statutory mechanism allowing property owners of undeveloped or unimproved land located within municipal boundaries to petition for annexation of their property into the county. | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5604 | To recognize bullion as legal tender | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5611 | Certified Microgrid Program | Pending | House Energy and Public Works | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5643 | Allowing an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5644 | To establish provisions regarding student immigration status and nationality in WV public educational institutions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |