Bill Status - 2022 Regular Session
Committee Activity
147 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 9 | Providing continued eligibility for developmental disability services to dependents of military members | 02/02/22 |
| SB 40 | Prohibiting insurance coverage from requiring prior authorization for tests to stage cancer | 01/17/22 |
| SB 456 | Requiring county boards of education to develop seizure action plans | 03/02/22 |
| SB 632 | Making Office of Emergency Medical Services independent office within Executive Branch | 03/08/22 |
| HB 2055 | Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2058 | Providing a pay increase for full-time adult protective service workers | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2060 | Reducing the criminal penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana or paraphernal | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2083 | Relating to age verification requirements for delivery sales of tobacco | 02/03/22 |
| HB 2106 | Modifying legislative rules for vital statistics relating to death certificates | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2126 | Creating the West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children’s Products Flame Retardants Act | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2127 | Relating to the state’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2171 | Vulnerable Child Protection Act | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2186 | Relating to tobacco usage restrictions | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2194 | Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2207 | Save the Hospitals Act | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2228 | Assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2239 | Restricting the performance of abortions and acquiring, providing, receiving, otherwise transferring, or using fetal body parts | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2254 | Establishing different rates of taxation for tobacco products for certain border counties | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2278 | Creating a Children’s Health Insurance Program buy-in program for children of families above 300 percent of the federal poverty level | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2280 | Involuntary drug and alcohol treatment | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2283 | Creating a healthy living tax credit against the personal income tax | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2284 | Creating a state-administered wholesale drug importation program | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2291 | Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2312 | Ensuring that legal or biological parents have equal access to any and all copies of birth registry forms | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2317 | Requiring the Department of Health and Human resources to pay the attorney fees of an adoptive parent in a subsidized adoption | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2519 | Repealing provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2534 | Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2542 | Relating to wages of persons with disabilities | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2557 | Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2611 | Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2647 | Prohibiting the use of polystyrene containers | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2653 | Providing a tax exemption for income from a qualified retirement plan used to pay for long-term care | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2674 | Relating to the administration of anesthetics | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2707 | Relating to prescriptive authority for advanced practice registered nurses | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2731 | Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2752 | Prohibiting discrimination in access to organ transplants based on physical or mental disability | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2754 | Prohibiting smoking in an enclosed motor vehicle when a child under the age of eight is present | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2762 | Exempt from this article any actions arising from the practice of elective abortion or elective abortion relates services | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2783 | Permitting a licensed physician to grant a medical exemption from the required immunizations for a child to enter a school or a state-regulated child care center | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2818 | Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2831 | Nursing Program Expansion Pilot Program | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2835 | Requiring the construction, development, acquisition or other establishment of an alcohol or drug treatment facility and drug and alcohol treatment services to obtain a certificate of need | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2839 | Establish Recovery Can’t Wait Program | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2861 | Relating to medical evaluation reports for workers compensation | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2871 | Providing for the compensation of the Cannabis Commissioner | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2875 | Relating to changes to provider contracts related to health benefit plans and Medicaid managed care plans | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2876 | Modify the five-year waiting period and 100-person minimum for an association health plan, and to allow new flexibility granted under federal rules | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2881 | Removing Hepatitis B from the list of required vaccinations | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2912 | Relating to cannabis and cannabis product sales, growth, and consumption in this state | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2954 | Abortion permitted only in certain instances | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2967 | Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities | 01/12/22 |
| HB 2980 | Amend Groundwater Protection Act to cover Karst Terrain | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3001 | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3013 | Provide a state income tax credit for nurses to encourage recruitment and commitment to the profession in this state | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3020 | Require photo identification on all EBT cards | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3024 | Prohibit abortions based on down syndrome | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3032 | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s mental or physical disability in access to organ transplantation | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3080 | Relating to making the Bureau of Behavioral Health the certifying agency for recovery residences | 02/03/22 |
| HB 3113 | Removing certain drugs from schedule 1 | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3119 | Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3138 | To update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3145 | Providing certain exemptions from recovery residence standards for group housing facilities of 50 beds or more | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3170 | Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3176 | Requiring sharps containers in all state buildings and facilities where the public is allowed | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3193 | Relating to obtaining an appropriate gender marker for state documents | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3197 | Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3201 | Creating the Food Infrastructure Grant | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3227 | To provide a means to classify when medications should be continued or stopped for patients | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3228 | To require a new written, phoned, or e-mail prescription order within 72 hours of a prescription change | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3229 | To require all prescribers of medication to include their purpose for prescribing the medication to the patient | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3238 | Establish Food Waste Task Force | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3248 | Eliminating the food handler examination and card | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3265 | Require an ultrasound prior to abortion | 01/12/22 |
| HB 3276 | Creating parity for mental health services | 01/12/22 |
| HB 4013 | Eliminating the certificate of need program | 01/24/22 |
| HB 4049 | Relating to abortions after detection of an unborn child’s heartbeat | 01/12/22 |
| HB 4055 | Clean Drinking Water Act of 2022 | 01/12/22 |
| HB 4070 | Relating to the prerequisites for filing suit against a health care provider under the Medical Professional Liability Act | 01/13/22 |
| HB 4085 | Relating to living anatomical gift | 01/14/22 |
| HB 4203 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate rule relating to Disciplinary Procedures: Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Surgeons | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4204 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensure, Practice Requirements, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures, Continuing Education, Physician Assistants | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4205 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Dispensing of Prescription Drugs by Practitioners | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4206 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Continuing Education for Physicians and Podiatric Physicians | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4207 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Practitioner Requirements for Accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database. | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4208 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Establishment and Regulation of Limited License to Practice Medicine and Surgery at Certain State Veterans Nursing Home Facilities. | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4209 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Registration to Practice During Declared State of Emergency | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4210 | Authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Telehealth and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Physician Assistants. | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4211 | Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4212 | Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Osteopathic Physician Assistants | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4213 | Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate rule relating to Practitioner Requirements for Controlled Substances Licensure and Accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4214 | Authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Telehealth Practice and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Osteopathic Physicians and Physician Assistants | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4222 | Authorizing the Board of Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice. | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4223 | Authorizing the Board of Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Telehealth Practice | 01/18/22 |
| HB 4255 | Abortion permitted only in certain instances | 01/19/22 |
| HB 4261 | Relating to the practice of optometry | 01/19/22 |
| HB 4267 | Prohibits Chain Community Pharmacy Productivity Quotas for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians | 01/19/22 |
| HB 4274 | To ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals | 01/19/22 |
| HB 4298 | Ban any and all Covid-19 vaccine mandates | 01/20/22 |
| HB 4303 | Amend certain provisions in public health definitions | 01/20/22 |
| HB 4309 | Relating to the use of certain drugs to treat Covid-19 | 01/20/22 |
| HB 4328 | Requiring that any doctor performing an abortion must be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology | 01/21/22 |
| HB 4337 | Creating the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act | 01/21/22 |
| HB 4349 | Prevent healthcare facilities from limiting the number of parents that are able to attend appointments for their children | 01/24/22 |
| HB 4374 | Relating to implementing a Medicaid state plan amendment as necessary and appropriate to effectuate a system of certified community behavioral health clinics | 01/25/22 |
| HB 4382 | Relating to preserving a patient’s right to abortion | 01/25/22 |
| HB 4401 | Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property | 01/26/22 |
| HB 4402 | Creating the Prevention Through K-12 Education Act | 01/26/22 |
| HB 4404 | Creating Tobacco Cessation Initiative Program Special Revenue Account within State Treasury | 01/26/22 |
| HB 4412 | Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention | 01/26/22 |
| HB 4414 | Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities | 01/26/22 |
| HB 4436 | Be Exceptional Starting Today Act | 01/31/22 |
| HB 4452 | Provide a safe process for organic waste composting | 01/31/22 |
| HB 4455 | Permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order | 01/31/22 |
| HB 4456 | Mountaineer Games Sports League | 01/31/22 |
| HB 4495 | Allowing professional nurses and advance practice registered nurses, or the equivalent, to practice in West Virginia, provided that they are licensed in another state | 02/02/22 |
| HB 4521 | To establish minimum training requirements for law enforcement officials on interacting effectively with people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias | 02/02/22 |
| HB 4549 | Exempt current facilities covered under Chapter 16, Article 2 from “Certificate of Need” requirements | 02/03/22 |
| HB 4569 | Medical Facility Protection Act | 02/07/22 |
| HB 4572 | Authorizing long term care facilities to increase their number of beds on certificate of need by 5% so long as those beds are filled by veterans | 02/08/22 |
| HB 4573 | Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities | 02/08/22 |
| HB 4581 | To provide safe harbor peer review for nurses | 02/08/22 |
| HB 4587 | Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis | 02/09/22 |
| HB 4597 | Creating WV Black Lung Program | 02/09/22 |
| HB 4598 | Relating generally to occupational pneumoconiosis | 02/09/22 |
| HB 4601 | Relating to expiration date of an optometrist’s prescription | 02/09/22 |
| HB 4609 | Relating to establishing the services that shall be provided by the traumatic brain injury waiver program | 02/10/22 |
| HB 4610 | Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act | 02/10/22 |
| HB 4620 | Providing options to vaccinations and mask requirements as a condition to entry of schools | 02/10/22 |
| HB 4661 | Provide for fines for hospitals that do not allow at least one visitor | 02/14/22 |
| HB 4677 | Clarifying that a hospital located in the same county as an academic medical center may perform any health service | 02/14/22 |
| HB 4696 | Relating to reporting of suspected abuse and neglect | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4697 | Permitting pharmacists to dispense ivermectin by means of standing order | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4698 | Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4708 | Primary care physicians must inform patients about Triple Negative Breast Cancer | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4713 | To require the athletic associations and sports entities of WV to implement a “Heat and Humidity Practice Policy.” | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4724 | Create a CARE FOR ALL line | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4736 | Relating to surgical smoke evacuation | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4737 | Food insecurity state wide tip line | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4745 | Decriminalization and legalization of cannabis with a taxing mechanism to bring more revenue to the state | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4746 | All state buildings and rest areas within WV have sharp containers | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4751 | Relating to in-state food service permit reciprocity | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4767 | To prohibit vaccine requirements as a condition of being eligible for an organ transplant | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4772 | Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4775 | Repeal law requiring motorcycle riders to wear a helmet | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4776 | Creating the Paid Parental Leave Pilot Program | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4784 | To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights | 02/15/22 |
| HB 4808 | Men’s Equality Act | 02/15/22 |