WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 3298

By Delegates Kimble, Anders, White, Mazzocchi, T. Howell, D. Cannon, Phillips, Butler, Coop-Gonzalez, and Kump

[Introduced March 11, 2025; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then Education]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-14-12, relating to prohibiting colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or booster shots associated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person classes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS.

§18B-14-12. COVID-19 vaccines and boosters as prerequisite for attendance prohibited.

No college or university in West Virginia may require a student to take the COVID-19 vaccine, or booster shot associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person classes.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or associated booster shot as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person class.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.