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There are 105 bill(s) regarding Health

Bill Title Status Committee Step Last Action
SB 21 Relating to care of aborted fetuses Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 23 Relating generally to midwifery Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 36 Permitting school nurses to possess and administer opioid antagonists Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 30, 2017)
SB 37 Raising legal age for purchase of tobacco, alternative nicotine and vapor products to 21 Pending  Senate Finance Committee  02/17/17 
SB 46 Excluding mobile x-ray services from health care provider tax Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 47 Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 51 Requiring patient notification when mammogram indicates dense breast tissue Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 52 Authorizing county commissions to approve, modify or disapprove local boards of health policies Pending  Senate Government Organization Committee  02/08/17 
SB 169 Repealing article providing assistance to Korea and Vietnam veterans exposed to certain chemical defoliants Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
SB 170 Repealing state hemophilia program Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
SB 171 Repealing Programs of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
SB 175 Relating to direct primary care Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
SB 176 Repealing article concerning detection of tuberculosis, high blood pressure and diabetes Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2017)
SB 177 Repealing article relating to prenatal examination Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/13/17 
SB 187 Providing for confidentiality of patients' medical records Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2017)
SB 188 Correcting definition of "telehealth" in medication-assisted treatment programs Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2017)
SB 193 Prohibiting smoking of tobacco products in motor vehicle when person 16 years old or younger is present Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  03/03/17 
SB 198 Expanding Health Sciences Program to allow certain medical practitioners in underserved areas Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
SB 201 Exploring potential sale, renovation or leasing of certain state-owned health care facilities Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/09/17 
SB 215 Allowing county commissions authority to amend proposed rates, fees and charges proposed by public service districts Pending  House Political Subdivisions Committee  02/21/17 
SB 253 Relating to licensing requirements for physicians and osteopathic physicians in WV Pending  Senate Government Organization Committee  02/10/17 
SB 318 Offering flu immunizations to patients 65 or older in specific facilities Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/15/17 
SB 319 Relating to requirements for employing nurses in public schools Pending  Senate Education Committee  02/15/17 
SB 329 Addressing increase of fentanyl, fentanyl derivatives and analogs in state Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  02/16/17 
SB 333 Requiring all DHHR-licensed facilities access WV Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
SB 339 Creating Legislative Coalition on Chronic Pain Management Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2017)
SB 360 Creating Legislative Coalition on Diabetes Management Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2017)
SB 361 Allowing exemptions from certificate of need to develop and operate nursing home in county without skilled nursing facility Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/21/17 
SB 373 Authorizing medical power of attorney sign binding arbitration agreement with nursing home or assisted living facility Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  02/21/17 
SB 386 Creating WV Medical Cannabis Act Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
SB 389 Creating exemption from certificate of need for services and equipment purchased for use in private physician offices Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/22/17 
SB 390 Relating to practice of medicine and telemedicine Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/22/17 
SB 391 Establishing call-in center for Bureau for Public Health for state residents to receive assistance with health care Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/22/17 
SB 395 Relating to WV Health Care Authority Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/22/17 
SB 398 Creating Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
SB 402 Relating to covenants not to compete between physicians and hospitals Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2017)
SB 406 Relating to generic drug products Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/29/17 
SB 422 Relating to Uniform Controlled Substances Act Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/23/17 
SB 424 Relating generally to requirements and provisions for notice of requested abortions Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/23/17 
SB 457 Eliminating WV Health Care Authority Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  02/27/17 
SB 486 Relating to health care provider taxes Signed  Effective July 1, 2017
SB 507 Allowing pharmacists inform customers about lower cost alternatives to prescribed drugs Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/31/17 
SB 519 Amending WV Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  03/09/17 
SB 537 Relating to exemptions from mandated immunizations Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/24/17 
SB 569 Creating Office of Rural Health within Center for Rural Health Development, Inc. Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/09/17 
SB 578 Relating generally to copies of health care records furnished to patients Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2017)
SB 596 Creating WV Counseling Protection Act Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/13/17 
SB 600 Relating generally to accredited academic hospitals Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/14/17 
SB 659 Enacting Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Pending  Senate Government Organization Committee  03/23/17 
SB 670 Establishing WV Advisory Council on Rare Diseases Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/20/17 
SB 672 Prohibiting persons under 18 from using tanning device Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/20/17 
HB 2002 Relating to parental notification of abortions performed on unemancipated minors Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2022 Relating to public health Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2068 Operating and maintaining a fully interoperable statewide network to facilitate public and private use of health care information in the state Pending  House Finance Committee  03/03/17 
HB 2070 Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2071 Authorizing the medical use of cannabis based pharmaceutical products Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2081 Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics; providing exceptions Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2082 Prohibiting state funding of abortions Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2095 Relating to the rule-making authority of local boards of health Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2113 Providing that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources may not change the state Medicaid program plan Pending  House Finance Committee  02/15/17 
HB 2119 Repealing West Virginia Health Benefit Exchange Act Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 4, 2017)
HB 2120 Exempting managed care contracts from the bidding process Pending  House Banking and Insurance Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2165 Relating to out of state physicians and surgeons traveling with sports teams within this state Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2175 Requiring recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be issued a photo identification card Pending  House Judiciary Committee  02/08/17 
HB 2187 Establishing an advisory council on rare diseases Pending  House Finance Committee  03/22/17 
HB 2300 Regulating step therapy protocols Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 19, 2017)
HB 2330 Prohibiting the sale of paraphernalia designed or marketed for use with controlled substances Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/10/17 
HB 2331 Raising the legal age for purchase of tobacco and tobacco products Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/10/17 
HB 2366 Relating to selling Jackie Withrow Hospital Pending    Concurrence  04/07/17 
HB 2373 Authorizing school bus drivers trained in administration of epinephrine auto-injectors to administer auto-injectors Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 5, 2017)
HB 2376 Relating to the organizational structure of state government Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/29/17 
HB 2428 Establishing additional substance abuse treatment facilities Signed  Effective from passage - (April 8, 2017)
HB 2431 Allowing influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 13, 2017)
HB 2454 Making the Department of Corrections and the Division of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act Pending  House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business Committee  02/15/17 
HB 2459 Relating to regulation of health care and the certificate of need process Signed  Effective from passage - (March 30, 2017)
HB 2497 Permitting medication administration by unlicensed personnel in nursing homes Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/16/17 
HB 2519 Medicaid program compact Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 3, 2017)
HB 2520 Prohibiting the use of a tanning device by a person under the age of eighteen Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2523 Eliminating the certificate of need program Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/16/17 
HB 2544 Establishing that an employee’s termination from employment for testing positive on a drug or alcohol test required by the employer disqualifies that employee for benefits Pending  House Judiciary Committee  02/20/17 
HB 2588 Simon’s Law; life sustaining procedures Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/21/17 
HB 2595 Requiring abortions to be performed by a licensed physician Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/21/17 
HB 2614 Prohibiting health care practitioners from knowingly and in bad faith prescribing or administering drugs Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/21/17 
HB 2620 West Virginia Drug Overdose Monitoring Act Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2017)
HB 2633 Requiring state institutions of higher education to conduct Phase 3 clinical research studies for any cancer treatment Pending  House Education Committee  02/21/17 
HB 2677 Patient Freedom Act Pending  House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee  02/22/17 
HB 2695 Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion Pending  House Education Committee  02/24/17 
HB 2728 Creating the Medicaid Laboratory Reimbursement Data Consolidation and Redundancy Act Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/28/17 
HB 2757 Relating to Medical Professional Liability Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/01/17 
HB 2778 Relating to licensure of behavioral health centers and behavioral health consumer rights Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/02/17 
HB 2808 The West Virginia Assisted Outpatient Treatment Act Pending  Senate Health and Human Resources Committee  03/24/17 
HB 2812 Office of Rural Health Policy Pending  House Government Organization Committee  03/07/17 
HB 2823 Establishing a statewide call-in center to receive assistance with healthcare Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/08/17 
HB 2826 Eliminating provisions and repealing statutes related to the West Virginia Health Information Network Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/08/17 
HB 2860 Relating to modification of assessments in a community enhancement district Pending  House Finance Committee  03/08/17 
HB 2861 Authorizing a medical power of attorney representative to sign a binding arbitration agreement Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/08/17 
HB 2904 Reorganizing the West Virginia Health Care Authority Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/09/17 
HB 2906 Emergency Medical Services Act of 2017 Pending  House Government Organization Committee  03/09/17 
HB 2914 Relating to powers and duties of the Commissioner of Public Health Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/20/17 
HB 2945 Relating to exemptions from mandated immunizations Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/13/17 
HB 2951 Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/13/17 
HB 2986 Relating to involuntary custody of nonresidents for a mental hygiene examination Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/14/17 
HB 2989 Placing limitations on length of time that prescriptions may be issued for schedule II and III controlled substances Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/14/17 
HB 2999 Establishing a program for the licensing and regulation of out-patient substance abuse counseling programs Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  03/14/17 
HB 3052 Prohibiting state funding of abortions Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/14/17