Bill Status - 2026 Regular Session
Committee Activity
175 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 398 | Removing full time requirement for health officers | 02/19/26 |
| SB 404 | Relating to Department of Human Services authority to contract with certain providers | 02/16/26 |
| SB 604 | Extending Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementia Advisory Council sunset date | 02/12/26 |
| SB 763 | Requiring children to be screened for sex trafficking upon entering foster care | 02/23/26 |
| SB 795 | Permitting parents and guardians to pay for independent medical evaluation of child in protective custody | 02/25/26 |
| SB 954 | Relating to health insurance for living organ donors | 03/02/26 |
| SB 956 | Authorizing physician assistants to own business | 03/05/26 |
| SB 1000 | Regulating vape and smoke shop retailers | 03/05/26 |
| HB 4017 | Faith Based Partnership | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4020 | Removing Full Time Requirement for Health Officers | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4032 | Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4059 | To require hospitals and or Counties to report costs associated with illegal or undocumented immigrants | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4061 | Requiring PEIA and other health insurance providers to provide payment parity for certain services | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4068 | Requiring Department of Health to report positive Alpha Gal tests to CDC | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4070 | Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4072 | Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4073 | Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4074 | Relating to establishing a pilot program to develop a childcare program where the state, employer, and employee, contribute one-third of the total cost each | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4079 | Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4102 | Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4105 | To provide requirements relating to education of students and young adults about unplannned pregnancy options | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4124 | To require baby food manufacturers to provide information about the quantity of or percentage of different types of heavy metals in baby food | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4158 | Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4168 | Relating to vaccine requirements | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4171 | Gender identification on forms of ID | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4197 | Mandating health insurance coverage treatment of pediatric patients diagnoced with PANDAS or PANS | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4216 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lead abatement licensing | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4217 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emergency medical services. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4218 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4219 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4220 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distribution of state funds for support of local boards of health. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4221 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to basic public health service standards for local boards of health | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4222 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to diabetes self-management education. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4223 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the exemption of Certificate of Need. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4224 | Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home licensure. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4225 | Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rulerelating to delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4226 | Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4227 | Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to syringe services program licensure. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4228 | Relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4229 | Relating to authorizing the Department of Health Facilities to promulgate a legislative rule relating to patient rights at state-operated mental health facilities. | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4336 | relating to standards for a medication-assisted treatment program. | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4351 | Creating a Public Awareness Campaign on the threat of mold in indoor environments | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4356 | Relating to permitting persons to refuse to participate in a irreversible transition surgery | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4357 | Modifying the time to terminate a foster care arrangement | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4359 | Exempt an existing hospital under certificate of need to move their facility up to 10 miles to a new location | 02/18/26 |
| HB 4375 | To require the Bureau for Social Services to file the Social Services Manual as a legislative rule | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4387 | Relating to information submitted by medical examiner to aid in identification of human remains | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4392 | Banning certain dyes from pharmaceutical products | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4394 | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to publicly release a schedule of all adoption subsidy payments to be made in the next year. | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4403 | West Virginia Homeless Shelter Oversight & Safety Act | 02/18/26 |
| HB 4413 | Making syringe exchange service programs unlawful | 02/12/26 |
| HB 4459 | Relating to Kratom | 02/18/26 |
| HB 4495 | To allow municipalities to regulate sober living housing in the cities | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4510 | Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4511 | To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement. | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4512 | Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits. | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4545 | To require the Department of Human Services to provide child welfare workers with mobile technology that will permit them to conduct investigations and create a digital record. | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4554 | Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4569 | Updating law regarding prior authorizations | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4581 | Relating to monthly status meeting of county entities | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4589 | 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 | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4614 | Relating to statewide prevention plan. | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4627 | Mandate free cancer screenings for professional firefighters. | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4666 | Require medical examiners to review medical and immunization records and document any immunizations or emergency countermeasures given within 90 days before their death | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4669 | Disallowing flouride to be added to public water systems | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4672 | Relating to access to original birth certificates to adopted adults or their lineal descendants | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4674 | Relating to prohibiting the use or sale of abortifacients | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4699 | To create the Substance Abuse Recovery Tax Credit | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4703 | Improving Medicaid access to durable medical equipment | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4715 | To remove restrictions for supervising physicians for Nurse practitioners or physician assistants in West Virginia | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4721 | Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4726 | Housing assistance for children aging out of foster care system | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4757 | Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4771 | Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4782 | Sustainable Child-serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act | 02/12/26 |
| HB 4786 | Clarifies the minimum hours of attendance necessary for child subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4795 | Relating to changing circumstances for when a child may be removed from a foster home. | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4796 | Addressing the placement of foster children and creating a central reception center and emergency resource homes. | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4810 | Relating to dental health care service plans | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4815 | Allow community health center to provide sign-on bonus | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4821 | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Program | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4826 | Relating to petition for involuntary treatment for drug and alcohol abuse | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4827 | Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4840 | Exempt federally qualified health centers from having to obtain a prior authorization for behavioral health services | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4853 | Relating to hospitals establishing protocols for providing trauma informed care to patients | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4899 | 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 | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4907 | Restricting the use of pesticides | 02/02/26 |
| HB 4915 | Sudden Death Reporting and Stransparency Act | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4917 | Relating to the termination of the authority’s certificate of need program | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4947 | Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4960 | Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employees | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4964 | To establish a phased implementation of a Community-Based Child Welfare system in West Virginia. | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4984 | Generic use of antipsychotics in Medicaid | 02/18/26 |
| HB 5034 | Relating to biometric privacy | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5035 | Requiring medication-assisted treatment prgrams to have written policies concerning community relations | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5042 | Prohibit a child in the custody of the state from placement in facility not approved by Department of Human Services | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5057 | To create the Rural Mobile Health and Mental Health Access Act. | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5058 | Require that notice be provided for any lab-grown food served in restaurants. | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5062 | To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5068 | Professional firefighter cancer screening | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5077 | Related to Mental Health Protection Act | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5078 | Related to child tax credit | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5085 | Related to troubled teen industry | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5092 | Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5093 | Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5097 | Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5103 | Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5107 | 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 | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5109 | Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5111 | To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission. | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5112 | Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5113 | Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5119 | Establishing the right to contraception | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5120 | MAHA - Menstrual Labeling Act | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5122 | Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5135 | Establish Food Waste Task Force | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5141 | Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5144 | Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5146 | Relating to drug scheduling | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5149 | Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5153 | To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5157 | Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5158 | Men’s Equality Act | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5181 | Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5184 | Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5185 | Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5188 | Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5189 | Relating to the use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5216 | Relating to community paramedicine programs | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5233 | Relating to living anatomical gift | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5254 | Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5256 | Relating to wages of persons with disabilities | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5259 | Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5266 | Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5330 | Allow expedited partner treatment for bacterial vaginitis | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5333 | To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5338 | Health Freedom for Teachers and Students Act. | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5343 | Establish a medical Adult day care pilot program in Fayette County. | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5345 | To require child care subsidy payments in West Virginia to be based on enrollment rather than daily attendance | 02/12/26 |
| HB 5363 | Authorizing counties to establish a county daycare | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5370 | Require a 24 -hour hospital hold for persons deemed addicted to specific substances | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5378 | Modifying the requirements for compulsory childhood immunizations to provide for exemptions based on religious and philosophical objections | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5429 | Luggage for foster care children transfered between homes | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5440 | Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5442 | Relating to training on the uses and indications of certain drugs for pregnant women. | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5447 | Changes to the requirements for do not resusitate orders. | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5476 | Require monitoring of electronic records maintained by hospitals. | 02/19/26 |
| HB 5482 | Protecting patient access to clinician-administered medications. | 02/12/26 |
| HB 5493 | Provide a penalty of chemical castration or surgical castration for sex abuse crimes against minors. | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5501 | Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation. | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5523 | Relating to establishing minimum requirements for discharge of women in later stages of pregnancy from hospitals. | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5530 | Relating to the composition of the Critical Incident Review Team | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5546 | Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5547 | To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5553 | Relating to participation in federal prescription drug pricing programs. | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5556 | Creating an external reference pricing pilot program for prescription drugs. | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5567 | Biometric Information Privacy Act | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5572 | Creating Vape and Smoke Shop Location and Operating Requirements Act | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5576 | Relating to Socially Necessary Services (SNS) Accountability and Streamlining Act | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5581 | Relating to newborn screening (Dawson’s Law) | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5588 | Establish a regulated framework for the medical use of psilocybin to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5591 | Relating to dispensing of ivermectin | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5592 | Ivermectin over the counter | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5593 | Making ivermectin available over the counter in West Virginia | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5610 | Authorizing Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5615 | Relating to Teleheatlh | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5618 | Federal Court Decision Striking Down Certificate of Need Moratorium. | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5623 | Youth Mental Health Protection Act | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5628 | Relating to mitigating the abrupt loss of child care assistance resulting from modest increases in family income | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5633 | Relating to extending the expiration date on a pilot program administered by the Herbert Henderson Office on Minority Affairs to promote public health through comprehensive community development. | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5650 | To allow for the practice of naturopathic medicine in this state. | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5658 | Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s Law. | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5659 | Relating to the development and implementation of a comprehensive model for the estimation of child care costs to be used in determining child care subsidy reimbursement rates. | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5664 | To create the West Virginia Cares Fund | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5681 | Relating to empowering qualified certified nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives to prescribe, administer, and dispense prescriptions drugs without a collaborating physician. | 02/23/26 |