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There are 40 bill(s) regarding Human Rights

Bill Title Status Committee Step Last Action
SB 24 Establishing WV Freedom of Conscience Protection Act Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
SB 45 Prohibiting certain divisive acts from school curriculum, state agencies, and any groups receiving state funding Pending  Senate Education Committee  01/12/22 
SB 58 Requiring certain movie theaters to provide open captioning during certain showings Pending  Senate Economic Development Committee  01/12/22 
SB 148 Prohibiting racial discrimination based on certain hair textures and hairstyles Pending  Senate Workforce Committee  01/12/22 
SB 156 Prohibiting unlawful discriminatory practices covered by Human Rights Act and Fair Housing Act Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
SB 216 Creating Student Journalist Press Freedom Restoration Act Pending  House Judiciary Committee  03/01/22 
SB 256 Prohibiting civil rights violations based on disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  01/13/22 
SB 416 Forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion Pending  Senate Judiciary Committee  01/18/22 
SB 468 Creating Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act Signed  Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2022)
SB 705 Creating WV Native American Tribes Unique Recognition, Authentication, and Listing Act Pending  Senate Government Organization Committee  02/21/22 
HB 2062 Creating a Small Business and Minority Populations Economic and Workforce Development Taskforce Pending  House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2128 Family Protection Act Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2159 Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2169 Life at Conception Act of 2021 Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2202 Creating the West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act Pending  House Government Organization Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2230 The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2231 Prohibiting confidential settlement terms of a contested case involving sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual assault in a state administrative proceeding Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2520 Requiring the Human Rights Commission, when investigating a complaint of discrimination, to specifically include an examination of the intent of the person Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2538 Adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2545 West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2594 Creating the Unborn Infants Wrongful Death Act Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2595 Prohibit “divisive concepts” from schools, state agencies and any groups receiving state funding Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2693 Eliminating the Human Rights Commission Pending  House Government Organization Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2697 Relating to unlawful discriminatory practices in categories covered by the Human Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2698 Making it illegal to discriminate based on hair texture or hair style Pending  House Government Organization Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2752 Prohibiting discrimination in access to organ transplants based on physical or mental disability Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  01/12/22 
HB 2872 Relating to statute of limitations for discrimination Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 3003 Relating to the definition of employer for sexual harassment purposes Pending  House Workforce Development Committee  01/12/22 
HB 3023 Places of worship may not be shut down by state of emergency Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 3028 Right to travel bill Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/12/22 
HB 3141 Designating February 3 as “Freedom Day,” to memorialize the February 3, 1865 Act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia Pending  House Government Organization Committee  01/12/22 
HB 3197 Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  01/12/22 
HB 4004 Relating to limiting an abortion to fifteen weeks' gestation Pending    2nd Reading  03/12/22 
HB 4015 Establishing the West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act Pending  House Judiciary Committee  01/24/22 
HB 4049 Relating to abortions after detection of an unborn child’s heartbeat Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  01/12/22 
HB 4337 Creating the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  01/21/22 
HB 4628 Relating to forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise on religion Pending  House Judiciary Committee  02/10/22 
HB 4661 Provide for fines for hospitals that do not allow at least one visitor Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/14/22 
HB 4741 To clarify that impermissible discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles Pending  House Government Organization Committee  02/28/22 
HB 4784 To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights Pending  House Health and Human Resources Committee  02/15/22