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79 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources

Bill Title Date
SB 626 Requiring DHHR secretary seek waiver within Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program limiting purchases under WIC program 03/01/16
HB 2009 Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess naloxone or other approved opioid antagonist 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2104 Terminating the Tax Commissioner's authority to issue business licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances 01/13/16
HB 2172 Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing 01/13/16
HB 2180 Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances 01/13/16
HB 2248 Ensuring Patient Safety Act 01/13/16
HB 2256 Prohibiting state funding of abortions 01/13/16
HB 2258 "Parents' Bill of Rights" 01/13/16
HB 2373 Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics; providing exceptions 01/13/16
HB 2390 Relating to public health 01/13/16
HB 2397 Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics in this state; providing exceptions 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2419 Adding fifty new positions to the staff at the William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital 01/13/16
HB 2436 Increasing the number of child protective service workers 01/13/16
HB 2440 Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions 01/13/16
HB 2449 Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows 02/03/16
HB 2450 Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses and certified nurse-midwives 01/13/16
HB 2454 Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2468 No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act 01/13/16
HB 2482 Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to state hospitals 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2510 Relating to school celebrations, recognition programs and events 01/13/16
HB 2553 Relating to human trafficking 01/13/16
HB 2556 Providing medical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children 01/13/16
HB 2611 Relating to controlling methamphetamine 01/13/16
HB 2633 Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor 01/13/16
HB 2634 Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products 01/13/16
HB 2660 Relating to health insurance exchange navigators and nonnavigator assisters 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2689 Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products 01/13/16
HB 2715 Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents 01/13/16
HB 2825 Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to review rates it pays to care providers and to increase direct care rates 01/13/16
HB 2834 Amending the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act 01/13/16
HB 2859 Exempting certain food establishments from inspection 01/13/16
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 01/13/16
HB 2930 Aged, Blind, Disabled and Long Term Services and Support Managed Care Act 01/13/16
HB 2937 Designating 5 million dollars per year for 4 years from beer, wine, and liquor tax revenue to the Fight Substance Abuse Fund 01/13/16
HB 2953 Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products 01/13/16
HB 2961 Relating to abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs 01/13/16
HB 3004 Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund 01/13/16
HB 3007 Exempting from food related laws or rules for certain individually produced agricultural products 01/13/16
HB 4004 Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act 01/13/16
HB 4010 Requiring drug screening and testing of applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program 01/15/16
HB 4021 Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits 01/14/16
HB 4023 Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products 01/14/16
HB 4041 Limiting able-bodied adults without dependents receipt of SNAP benefits to three months in a thirty-six month period 01/18/16
HB 4181 Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products 01/20/16
HB 4185 Establishing the ratio of four pharmacy technicians to every one on-duty pharmacist operating in a pharmacy 01/20/16
HB 4216 Exempting community-based behavioral health facilities, programs or services from the certificate of need process 01/21/16
HB 4249 Creating the Commission to Accelerate Statewide Coordination of Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents 01/25/16
HB 4277 Repealing provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products 01/26/16
HB 4288 Save the Hospitals Act 01/27/16
HB 4338 Relating to the state’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver 02/01/16
HB 4343 Youth Mental Health Protection Act 02/01/16
HB 4353 Relating to testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases 02/02/16
HB 4355 Requiring the Bureau of Medical Services to request certain waivers from the Center from Medicaid and Medicare Services 02/02/16
HB 4397 Exempting certain child care facilities from licensure, certification, approval and registration requirements 02/04/16
HB 4412 Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection 02/05/16
HB 4420 Requiring the listing of the ingredients contained in vapor products 02/05/16
HB 4423 Requiring various professionals who provide mental health-related services complete a minimum number of fifteen contact hours of course work in suicide assessment, treatment and management before that person may be issued a license 02/05/16
HB 4475 Removing the certificate of need exemption for an ambulatory health care facility located in the same zip code as certain hospitals 02/10/16
HB 4494 Increasing the tax rate on cigarettes and tobacco products 02/11/16
HB 4509 Raising the legal age for purchase of tobacco and tobacco products 02/11/16
HB 4531 Requiring hospitals, or other similar institutions, to publish a cost list for the most commonly performed procedures that are billed 02/12/16
HB 4553 Relating to the West Virginia Health Care Authority 02/16/16
HB 4564 Relating to the taxing certain tobacco products 02/16/16
HB 4588 Requiring the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission adopt certain safety standards for youth lacrosse 02/17/16
HB 4591 Continuing the state’s bundled service funding and reimbursement program for residential treatment of at-risk children 02/17/16
HB 4598 Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team; and authorizing a Community Health Equity Initiative Demonstration Project 02/17/16
HB 4614 Relating to the medical loss ratio contained in any Medicaid managed care contract 02/22/16
HB 4619 Transferring the Office of Emergency Medical Services from the Bureau for Public Health to the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety 02/19/16
HB 4661 Relating to child welfare 02/22/16
HB 4663 Establishing an on-call center for state residents to receive assistance with healthcare 02/22/16
HB 4704 Operating and maintaining a fully interoperable statewide network to facilitate public and private use of health care information in the state 02/23/16
HB 4712 Relating to permitted use and possession of marihuana 02/23/16
HB 4713 Authorizing the medical use of cannabis based pharmaceutical products 02/23/16
HB 4720 Prohibiting the sale and consumption of powdered alcohol 02/23/16