Bill Status - 2017 Regular Session
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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 |