Bill Status - 2024 Regular Session
Committee Activity
170 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 169 | Allowing physician assistants to own practice | 01/15/24 |
| SB 293 | Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act | 01/24/24 |
| SB 357 | Permitting dental hygienist to perform tobacco cessation education | 01/26/24 |
| SB 468 | Requiring course in public schools on human development | 02/29/24 |
| SB 769 | Prohibiting certain medical exams on anesthetized patients | 02/29/24 |
| SB 779 | Imposing deadlines for autopsies and autopsy reports | 02/22/24 |
| HB 4001 | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program | 02/13/24 |
| HB 4005 | To legalize the use of edibles when a patient is prescribed medical marijuana | 02/13/24 |
| HB 4042 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public water systems operators | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4043 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to wastewater systems and operators | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4044 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4045 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4046 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4047 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cross-connection control and backflow prevention | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4048 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for permits | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4049 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4050 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4051 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to newborn screening system | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4052 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distribution of funds from emergency medical services salary enhancement fund | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4053 | Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: registry and employment screening | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4054 | Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cooperative agreement approval and compliance | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4055 | Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certificate of need | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4056 | Authorizing the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4057 | Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to chronic pain management clinic licensure | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4058 | Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medication assisted treatment and office-based medication-assisted treatment | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4059 | Authorizing the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedure to contest the substantiation of child abuse or neglect | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4060 | Authorizing the Family Protection Services Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to domestic violence program licensure standards | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4137 | Authorizing the West Virginia Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home administrators | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4170 | Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4174 | Prohibit the practice of white bagging | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4178 | Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4187 | Relating to tobacco usage restrictions | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4189 | 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. | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4192 | Allow for religious exemptions for getting vaccinations | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4193 | Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4215 | To ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4227 | Require photo identification on all EBT cards | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4237 | Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4244 | Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4246 | Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4279 | Relating to the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4283 | Creating WV Black Lung Program | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4293 | Relating to prohibiting mask mandates | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4295 | Requiring a pharmacist to fill a prescription for individuals who have a valid prescription unless belief that prescription is fraudulent | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4314 | Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4319 | Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4324 | Permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4328 | Require an ultrasound prior to abortion | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4340 | Create a division of forensic social work services in DHHR | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4348 | Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4352 | 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. | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4357 | To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4370 | Ensuring that legal or biological parents have equal access to any and all copies of birth registry forms | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4401 | Require that all injuries and side effects from vaccines be reported by medical professional to the Bureau for Public Health | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4403 | Providing options to vaccinations and mask requirements as a condition to entry of schools | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4405 | Mental Hygiene Reform Act | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4413 | Relating to updating the minimum standards for nursing homes | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4424 | 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 | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4438 | Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4439 | Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4447 | To create the Responsible Fatherhood Act | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4449 | Increase age to 21 for tobacco and vape sales to align with federal law | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4451 | Requiring the Department of Health and Human resources to pay the attorney fees of an adoptive parent in a subsidized adoption | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4454 | Prohibiting mask mandates by the State of West Virginia | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4473 | Removing certain drugs from schedule one | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4479 | To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4483 | Be Exceptional Starting Today Act | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4511 | Relating to living anatomical gift | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4532 | Relating to health insurance for living organ donors | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4533 | Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4544 | Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4554 | Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4563 | Prohibit state funding for any organization that performs abortions | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4571 | 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 | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4583 | Prevent healthcare facilities from limiting the number of parents that are able to attend appointments for their children | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4585 | Get rid of vaccine requirement for families who want to provide respite care | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4587 | To create a crime to send someone abortion pills through the U.S. mail | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4588 | Stop practice of medicine by telehealth for abortion prescriptions | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4592 | Relating to a state-funded psychiatric residency program | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4612 | Relating to social determinants of health | 01/11/24 |
| HB 4613 | Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Insurance Coverage Protection Act | 01/11/24 |
| HB 4633 | Require Medicaid to submit all state plan amendments, waiver submissions and policy changes to the Legislature for rulemaking approval | 01/11/24 |
| HB 4643 | Establishing the Child Support from Conception Act | 01/12/24 |
| HB 4647 | Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities | 01/12/24 |
| HB 4669 | Relating to controlled substance monitoring; and removing a dispensing prohibition | 01/12/24 |
| HB 4679 | Youth Mental Health Protection Act | 01/12/24 |
| HB 4684 | Relating generally to mental health treatment | 01/12/24 |
| HB 4740 | To provide safe harbor peer review for nurses | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4743 | Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician | 01/22/24 |
| HB 4749 | Relating to wages of persons with disabilities | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4750 | Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4751 | Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4757 | Relating to the organization of the Office of the Inspector General | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4778 | Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association | 01/16/24 |
| HB 4781 | To fund repairs and renovations for the West Virginia Children’s Home in Randolph County. | 01/16/24 |
| HB 4844 | Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators. | 01/17/24 |
| HB 4857 | Banning Medicaid and CHIP from paying for child and adult transgender surgeries | 01/17/24 |
| HB 4866 | Prohibit needle exchanges from providing services in West Virginia | 01/17/24 |
| HB 4873 | Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption | 01/17/24 |
| HB 4884 | Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4892 | Relating to the distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies | 02/08/24 |
| HB 4898 | Relating to foster or adoption parents sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender idenity | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4900 | To create the Core State Behavioral Health Crisis Services System | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4914 | Establish Food Waste Task Force | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4922 | Establish cause of action upon violation of prohibition of providing gender reassignment or gender altering medication to minor | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4923 | Establishing parental requirements regarding gender reassignment surgery or gender altering medications for minor child | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4929 | To update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4936 | Men’s Equality Act | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4937 | Relating to notification of breast density | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4939 | Banning certain practices by medical students without informed consent | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4953 | Relating to medical professional liability | 01/22/24 |
| HB 5041 | Relating to life at conception | 01/23/24 |
| HB 5061 | To create the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Council | 01/24/24 |
| HB 5073 | Relating to the Women’s Right to Know Act | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5086 | To create the Food Safety Act | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5106 | Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5107 | Relating to compulsory immunizations | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5110 | Genetic Information Privacy Act | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5120 | Relating to medical records | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5141 | Universities must accept religious, medical, or right of conscience exemptions to taking vaccinations | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5142 | Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5143 | Allowing for Religious Exemptions of Vaccine Requirements in Primary and Secondary Schools | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5144 | No vaccine mandate for schools | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5145 | Removing Hepatitis B from the list of required vaccinations | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5149 | Requiring all hospitals and medical offices to send a notice to all former or current patients when they turn 18, informing them that if they have had any negative or adverse side effects of a procedure that was performed on them as a child to contact the hospital or office to inform them of the issue | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5154 | Removing liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5160 | Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5167 | Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5187 | Remove hormone blockers from transgender code | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5210 | Relating to voluntary private school immunization | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5211 | Relating to vaccination and mask requirements | 01/26/24 |
| HB 5229 | To require a new written, phoned, or e-mail prescription order within 72 hours of a prescription change | 01/26/24 |
| HB 5230 | To provide a means to classify when medications should be continued or stopped for patients | 01/26/24 |
| HB 5240 | Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government | 01/26/24 |
| HB 5249 | Vaccine exemption for private, parochial, charter, virtual charter, and remote public schools. | 01/26/24 |
| HB 5260 | To require all prescribers of medication to include their purpose for prescribing the medication to the patient | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5274 | To require all medical providers to orally explain any and all medical treatments and procedures and all possibilities for potential problems or complications or side effects to patients before proceeding with treatments. | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5281 | Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5284 | Removing Personal care from the Certificate of Need requirements. | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5303 | Relating to exempting a neighborhood hospital from certificate of need | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5316 | Adding exceptions to Article 7B of Chapter 55 of this code to which the provisions of Article 7B shall no longer apply | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5328 | Relating to expanding certain insurance coverages for pregnant women | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5335 | Relating to compulsory immunizations | 01/29/24 |
| HB 5380 | Relating to Medicaid coverage for blood pressure monitoring devices to be offered to certain persons who have been diagnosed with hypertension | 01/31/24 |
| HB 5391 | Creating the False Claims Act | 01/31/24 |
| HB 5394 | To make any business/individual either selling and/or giving any E-Cigarette (vape or cartridge) to anyone under the age of 18 a misdemeanor. | 01/31/24 |
| HB 5398 | To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement. | 01/31/24 |
| HB 5417 | To provide for transparency of the expenditure of dental health care plan premiums | 02/07/24 |
| HB 5481 | Relating generally to liability of hospital police | 02/06/24 |
| HB 5505 | Relating to expanding certain insurance coverages for pregnant women | 02/07/24 |
| HB 5511 | Relating generally to medical cannabis | 02/07/24 |
| HB 5512 | To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights | 02/07/24 |
| HB 5521 | Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products | 02/08/24 |
| HB 5524 | Regulating and restricting the shipment and receipt of abortion-inducing drugs and paraphernalia | 02/08/24 |
| HB 5543 | Relating to petition for involuntary treament for drug and alcohol abuse | 02/09/24 |
| HB 5552 | Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health | 02/09/24 |
| HB 5557 | Relating to Medicaid Waiver Package | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5558 | The purpose of this bill is to provide management agencies receiving funds from the West Virginia Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program the ability, in coordination with the Bureau for Public Health, to promulgate rules requirements, and procedures for expending funds. | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5564 | Providing that small format, micro hospitals are exempt from certificate of need review | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5570 | Relating to Cancer Prevention Programs for Firefighters | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5577 | Increasing required medical coverage for autism spectrum disorders | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5580 | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5585 | Relating to support of child care in kinship/relative custody situations | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5608 | Relating to the use of legal cannabis sales profits to offset employee contributions to the Public Employees Insurance program. | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5614 | Relating to postmortem examinations | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5622 | Relating to gender change in government documents | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5642 | Relating to expanding the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5682 | Creating the Prescription Drug Affordability Board | 02/13/24 |
| HB 5683 | Relating to a Medicaid state plan amendment | 02/13/24 |
| HB 5686 | Modifications to the Medical Services Fund Advisory Council | 02/13/24 |