Bill Status - 2015 Regular Session
Committee Activity
61 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 109 | Relating to local indoor smoking prohibitions | 02/25/15 |
| HB 2026 | Allowing terminally ill patients to have access to investigational products that have not been approved by the federal food and drug administration | 01/14/15 |
| HB 2031 | Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus | 01/14/15 |
| HB 2044 | Relating generally to administration of an opioid antagonist | 01/14/15 |
| HB 2084 | Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient regardless of how that person was injured or became ill | 01/16/15 |
| HB 2153 | The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act | 01/20/15 |
| HB 2172 | Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing | 01/21/15 |
| HB 2180 | Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances | 01/21/15 |
| HB 2215 | Establishing certain protections for individuals seeking health care coverage through the WV Health Benefit Exchange | 01/22/15 |
| HB 2248 | Ensuring Patient Safety Act | 01/23/15 |
| HB 2256 | Prohibiting state funding of abortions | 01/23/15 |
| HB 2260 | Prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from expanding the managed care population without authorization from the Legislature | 01/23/15 |
| HB 2373 | Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics; providing exceptions | 01/26/15 |
| HB 2390 | Relating to public health | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2397 | Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2403 | Relating to qualifying children of state employees, receiving income of $25,000 per year or less, for the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2408 | Relating to collaborative practice | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2419 | Adding fifty new positions to the staff at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2436 | Increasing the number of child protective service workers | 01/27/15 |
| HB 2450 | Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2454 | Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2455 | Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2468 | No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2471 | Relating to food handlers' licenses | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2482 | Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2487 | Requiring a person restraining a mentally ill or mentally challenged person in a "four point restraint" to administer sedation by injection at the time the patient is secured | 01/28/15 |
| HB 2500 | Allowing local boards of health to appoint physician assistants as local health officers | 01/29/15 |
| HB 2509 | Determining federal health care legislation invalid in this state | 01/29/15 |
| HB 2543 | Access to Opioid Antagonists Act | 02/02/15 |
| HB 2544 | Clarifying that optometrists may continue to exercise the same prescriptive authority which they possessed prior to hydrocodone being reclassified | 02/02/15 |
| HB 2553 | Relating to human trafficking | 02/02/15 |
| HB 2556 | Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children | 02/02/15 |
| HB 2559 | Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes | 02/02/15 |
| HB 2611 | Relating to controlling methamphetamine | 02/05/15 |
| HB 2633 | Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor | 02/06/15 |
| HB 2634 | Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products | 02/06/15 |
| HB 2660 | Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters | 02/09/15 |
| HB 2661 | Providing for the protection and privacy of persons seeking health insurance assisted by navigators and nonnavigator assisters under the federal Affordable Care Act | 02/09/15 |
| HB 2667 | Relating to electronic cigarettes and vapor products | 02/09/15 |
| HB 2670 | Relating to prescription authority for physician assistants | 02/09/15 |
| HB 2689 | Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products | 02/11/15 |
| HB 2708 | Requiring various professionals who provide mental health-related services, complete course work in suicide assessment, treatment and management | 02/12/15 |
| HB 2715 | Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents | 02/12/15 |
| HB 2723 | Relating to the expiration of the Multi-State Real-Time Tracking System | 02/13/15 |
| HB 2734 | Extending the Multi-State Real-Time Tracking System | 02/13/15 |
| HB 2754 | Relating to uncompensated care | 02/16/15 |
| HB 2806 | Creating a methamphetamine registry | 02/18/15 |
| HB 2825 | Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to review rates it pays to care providers and to increase direct care rates | 02/19/15 |
| HB 2859 | Exempting certain food establishments from inspection | 02/20/15 |
| HB 2860 | Relating to copayments required in certain policies, provisions, contracts, plans or agreements to provide health care benefits | 02/20/15 |
| HB 2885 | The Youth Mental Health Protection Act | 02/23/15 |
| HB 2909 | Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2924 | Directing the Health Care Authority to establish a council to investigate and recommend to the authority pricing guides for pharmaceuticals that exclude advertising costs | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2930 | Aged, Blind, Disabled and Long Term Services and Support Managed Care Act | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2937 | Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2947 | Relating to provider tax on hospitals to fund health care cost review fund | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2953 | Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products | 02/24/15 |
| HB 2990 | Relating to requirements for insurance policies and contracts providing accident and sickness insurance or direct health care services that cover prescription eye drops | 02/24/15 |
| HB 3004 | Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund | 02/24/15 |
| HB 3007 | Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products | 02/24/15 |
| HB 3008 | Relating to certificates of need for certain skilled nursing facilities | 02/24/15 |