Bill Status - 2023 Regular Session
Committee Activity
144 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 126 | Reorganizing DHHR | 01/16/23 |
| SB 195 | Glucagon for Schools Act | 02/23/23 |
| SB 480 | Modifying group accident and sickness insurance requirements | 02/23/23 |
| SB 646 | Creating emeritus physician license | 02/24/23 |
| SB 650 | Allowing physician assistants to own practice | 03/01/23 |
| SB 657 | WV Long-Term Care Insurance Act | 02/24/23 |
| SB 676 | Requiring report on Medicaid fees and managed care provider reimbursements compared to PEIA, Medicare, and surrounding states | 02/27/23 |
| SB 732 | Prohibiting insurer from imposing copayment for certain services | 03/01/23 |
| HB 2028 | Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2032 | Relating to the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2036 | Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines | 02/22/23 |
| HB 2046 | Permitting a licensed physician to grant a medical exemption from the required immunizations for a child to enter a school or a state-regulated childcare center | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2051 | Relating to tobacco usage restrictions | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2057 | Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months. | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2058 | Relating to requiring a court to verify certain conditions are met before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home. | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2076 | To require a new written, phoned, or e-mail prescription order within 72 hours of a prescription change | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2090 | All state buildings and rest areas within WV have sharp containers | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2091 | Decriminalization and legalization of cannabis with a taxing mechanism to bring more revenue to the state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2100 | Medical Facility Protection Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2101 | Relating to obtaining an appropriate gender marker for state documents | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2107 | Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2124 | Removing Hepatitis B from the list of required vaccinations | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2145 | Be Exceptional Starting Today Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2146 | Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2183 | Provide a state income tax credit for nurses to encourage recruitment and commitment to the profession in this state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2192 | Relating to health insurance for living organ donors | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2217 | Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2219 | Relating to permitting medical cannabis to be dispensed in edible form | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2230 | Ensuring that legal or biological parents have equal access to any and all copies of birth registry forms | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2247 | Relating to reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Resources | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2253 | Relating to controlled substance monitoring; and removing a dispensing prohibition | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2262 | Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2264 | Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2267 | Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2287 | Requiring sharps containers in all state buildings and facilities where the public is allowed | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2303 | Providing a tax exemption for income from a qualified retirement plan used to pay for long-term care | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2304 | Prohibiting the use of polystyrene containers | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2312 | Relating to abortions after detection of an unborn child’s heartbeat | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2318 | Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2321 | Require an ultrasound prior to abortion | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2326 | Prohibit state funding for any organization that performs abortions | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2342 | To require all prescribers of medication to include their purpose for prescribing the medication to the patient | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2348 | Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2352 | Relating to living anatomical gift | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2358 | Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2360 | Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2367 | Providing options to vaccinations and mask requirements as a condition to entry of schools | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2368 | Provide for fines for hospitals that do not allow at least one visitor | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2376 | To ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2385 | Creating the Prevention Through K-12 Education Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2407 | Require photo identification on all EBT cards | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2408 | Mountaineer Games Sports League | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2409 | Provide a safe process for organic waste composting | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2413 | Permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2416 | Prevent healthcare facilities from limiting the number of parents that are able to attend appointments for their children | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2419 | Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2426 | Authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources to develop a submission procedures manual and adopt the same as a procedural rule. | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2427 | Establishing the status of beds when an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities closes | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2428 | Relating to foster care | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2429 | Prohibit the practice of white bagging | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2430 | To reduce copay cap on insulin and devices | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2431 | Relating to the Ryan Brown Fund | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2437 | Relating to fetal body parts | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2438 | 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 | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2440 | To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2446 | Food insecurity state wide tip line | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2447 | Create a CARE FOR ALL line | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2448 | Primary care physicians must inform patients about Triple Negative Breast Cancer | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2454 | Creating WV Black Lung Program | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2482 | Relating to social determinants of health | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2490 | Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2496 | Requiring that any doctor performing an abortion must be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2497 | Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2501 | Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2503 | Requiring the Department of Health and Human resources to pay the attorney fees of an adoptive parent in a subsidized adoption | 01/12/23 |
| HB 2535 | Relating to prior authorizations | 01/13/23 |
| HB 2536 | Permitting physicians to provide exemption certificates relating to required immunizations | 01/13/23 |
| HB 2544 | Make investigation and enforcement of the Patient Brokering Act the responsibility of OHFLAC | 01/13/23 |
| HB 2558 | Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations | 01/16/23 |
| HB 2559 | Prohibiting mask mandates by the State of West Virginia | 01/16/23 |
| HB 2603 | Relating to vaccination and mask requirements | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2631 | Authorizing dogs to be in certain licensed establishments | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2758 | Relating to updating the minimum standards for nursing homes | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2785 | Relating to PEIA reimbursement | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2798 | Clarifying that the time limitations provided for filing occupational pneumoconiosis claims do not apply or otherwise limit the ability of a claimant to obtain an evaluation from the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board. | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2813 | Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2823 | Allowing for Religious Exemptions of Vaccine Requirements in Primary and Secondary Schools | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2825 | Relating to prohibiting mask mandates | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2851 | Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2885 | Relating to life at conception | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2925 | Get rid of vaccine requirement for families who want to provide respite care | 01/23/23 |
| HB 2936 | Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2944 | Relating to DNA collection requirements in abortion cases relating to rape or incest | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2951 | Removing certain drugs from schedule one | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2956 | Relating to access for minor children’s medical records | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2972 | To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2978 | Eliminating the food handler examination and card | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2987 | To update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2988 | Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2994 | Relating to expired date of an optometrist’s prescription | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3000 | Universities must accept religious, medical, or right of conscience exemptions to taking vaccinations | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3002 | To create a crime to send someone abortion pills through the U.S. mail | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3003 | Stop practice of medicine by telehealth for abortion prescriptions | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3017 | Establish Food Waste Task Force | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3022 | Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3069 | Require that all injuries and side effects from vaccines be reported by medical professional to the Bureau for Public Health | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3080 | To mandate sharp containers, AED monitors, and first aid kits at WV rest areas | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3086 | Men’s Equality Act | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3097 | Banning Medicaid and CHIP from paying for child and adult transgender surgeries | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3115 | To allow the development of a specialized intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3116 | Creating the No Patient Left Alone Act | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3128 | Requiring open captions in movie theaters within the State of West Virginia to accommodate the deaf and hard of hearing | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3143 | Allow for religious exemptions for getting vaccinations | 01/30/23 |
| HB 3160 | Providing that records of Department of Health and Human Services of sustained and non-sustained allegations of child abuse or neglect are preserved | 01/31/23 |
| HB 3182 | Relating generally to mental health treatment | 01/31/23 |
| HB 3184 | WV Medical Information Confidentiality and Anti-Discrimination Act | 01/31/23 |
| HB 3204 | Mobile Food-Vendor Freedom Act | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3205 | Eliminating the certificate of need program | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3229 | Increase age to 21 for tobacco and vape sales to align with federal law | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3257 | Relating to infant and maternity mortality | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3288 | Adding medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy to the category of medical professionals who are subject to the prohibition against therapeutic deception. | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3297 | To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients | 02/06/23 |
| HB 3309 | Establishing the Child Support from Conception Act | 02/07/23 |
| HB 3325 | Requiring a pharmacist to fill a prescription for individuals who have a valid prescription unless belief that prescription is fraudulent | 02/07/23 |
| HB 3346 | Mental Hygiene Reform Act | 02/08/23 |
| HB 3356 | Require Medicaid to submit all state plan amendments, waiver submissions and policy changes to the Legislature for rulemaking approval | 02/10/23 |
| HB 3383 | Youth Mental Health Protection Act | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3388 | Creating the health care professionals preceptor tax credit | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3415 | Maternal Health and Family Support Act | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3419 | Relating to wages of persons with disabilities | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3422 | To add nurses working in a nursing home to the overtime limitation | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3433 | Create a division of forensic social work services in DHHR | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3455 | Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3458 | To create the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Council | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3472 | Returning a woman’s right to choose | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3485 | Relating to Medicaid Waiver Package | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3496 | To create the Responsible Fatherhood Act | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3506 | Relating to infant and maternity mortality | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3507 | Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Insurance Coverage Protection Act | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3508 | To create the Core State Behavioral Health Crisis Services System | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3533 | Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3534 | Relating to insurance copayments for certain services | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3536 | Relating to annual suicide prevention training and dissemination of resources for school staff | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3540 | Requiring regular reporting of recommended reimbursement rates for IDD providers | 02/14/23 |