Bill Status - 2025 Regular Session
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There are 45 bill(s) regarding Professions and Occupations
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 43 | Relating to administration of anesthetics | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 84 | Providing license for certified professional midwife | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 115 | Establishing tax credit for certain physicians who locate to practice in WV | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 263 | Relating to use of criminal records as disqualification from authorization to practice particular profession | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/11/25 |
| SB 443 | Authorizing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board of Examiners to conduct criminal background checks for licensing | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 13, 2025) | ||
| SB 496 | Removing reflexology and other energy-based work from definition of "massage therapy" | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2025) | ||
| SB 557 | Relating to licensing by WV Board of Medicine | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/20/25 |
| SB 565 | Relating generally to practice of optometry | BL | Governor | ||
| SB 567 | Prohibiting employment termination of employee who defends themselves from attack inside workplace | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/25 |
| SB 569 | Establishing certain rights for purchasers of residential improvements | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 04/03/25 |
| SB 611 | Excluding workers of ski area operators from maximum hour requirements | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| SB 661 | Revising reimbursement and transportation process for post-mental health involuntary commitment | Pending | Senate Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health | Committee | 03/03/25 |
| SB 745 | Strengthening and reforming lobbying requirements | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 04/01/25 |
| SB 810 | Clarifying requirements for administration of anesthesia and chronic pain practice by certain licensed nurses | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 7, 2025) | ||
| SB 824 | Amending procedures for regulation of scope of practice for occupations and professions | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/20/25 |
| SB 871 | Removing persons who perform drywall services from definition of “contractor” in Contractor Licensing Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/27/25 |
| SB 883 | Providing director of WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training discretion and authority in certain appointments | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025) | ||
| HB 2029 | To allow individual employees of out of state businesses to perform plumbing in West Virginia without an individual license as the employee is working under supervision of the licensed employer/business | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2109 | To expand the EMS retirement system | Pending | House Investments | Committee | 02/17/25 |
| HB 2155 | To allow for local electronic repair shops to repair Apple phones | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2170 | Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/03/25 |
| HB 2346 | Relating to Pawnbrokers | Pending | House Government Administration | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| HB 2388 | Exclude workers of a ski area operators from maximum hour requirements | Pending | House Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourism | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2484 | Clarifying the probationary period for paid municipal firefighters. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 8, 2025) | ||
| HB 2492 | Place Correction and Rehab state workers into a separate category from other state workers and increase their salary scales. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/25 |
| HB 2529 | Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| HB 2549 | Change the term of the office of sheriff from 4 years to 6 years | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| HB 2579 | To place a $1.00 charge on Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Door Dash, and all like services with the proceeds to be disbursed to the WVDOH and equally applied to each Counties Annual Budget | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| HB 2630 | To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/21/25 |
| HB 2696 | Relating to the West Virginia Supreme Court’s power to promulgate rules allowing for the limited practice of law by nonlawyers | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/20/25 |
| HB 2704 | Revising the reimbursement and transportation process for post mental health involuntary commitment | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| HB 2788 | Allowing West Virginia State Police officers to bank sick leave and use it towards their years of service or to fund their health insurance | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/21/25 |
| HB 2802 | Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025) | ||
| HB 2851 | Automatic renewal and continuous service offers | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2863 | Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office. | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3104 | Allow anyone with a master’s degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| HB 3145 | Relating to duties of licensees under the West Virginia Real Estate License Act | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 04/08/25 |
| HB 3194 | To provide a pay increase for the West Virginia Capitol Police and support staff of Capitol police | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/06/25 |
| HB 3211 | Relating to Cancer Prevention Programs for Firefighters | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3215 | Professional Firefighter cancer screening | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3261 | Relating generally to the administration of anesthetics by CRNA | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3303 | Expanding powers of bounty hunters in West Virginia | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/11/25 |
| HB 3312 | Increasing compensation for Sheriffs in every class. | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/11/25 |
| HB 3449 | Provide for occupational licenses or other authorization to practice by recognition for qualified applicants from other states | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/17/25 |
| HB 3471 | Removing the requirement for an individual to be certified by a specific manufacturer to perform work on suppression systems | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/17/25 |