Bill Status - 2008 Regular Session
Committee Activity
85 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2008 | Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2025 | Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2036 | Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2037 | Requiring that abortion providers notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion forty-eight hours before performing the procedure | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2072 | Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2092 | Allowing pharmacists and other individuals involved in dispensing medicines to refuse to fill prescriptions or dispense any substance that can be used as part of an abortion-related procedure | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2129 | Banning partial birth abortions in instances when the unborn child is capable of survival if delivered | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2134 | Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2138 | Prohibiting abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2149 | Requiring the collection of statistics relative to abortions performed in the State | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2151 | Relating to parental notification requirements for abortions performed on unemancipated minors | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2214 | Providing that a legally unlicensed personal care home may house up to four unrelated residents if there is at least one full-time employee working at the home | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2219 | Requiring a physician to receive written consent from at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on an unemancipated minor | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2221 | Providing for a pilot project intended to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2228 | Prohibiting subsidies to entities that perform abortions | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2231 | Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2234 | Establishing the hospitals infection disclosure act requiring hospitals to disclose hospital-infection rates for the public | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2245 | Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to maintain information for public dissemination relative to judicial bypasses to the requirement of parental notification relative to abortions performed on minors | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2248 | Relating to a child's right to nurse | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2273 | Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2312 | Requiring faith-based, abstinence-only and antichoice facilities to have written policies and procedures | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2313 | Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2326 | Authorizing medication administration by unlicensed personnel of nursing homes | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2328 | Requiring licensure of pharmacy benefit managers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2359 | Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2368 | Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2369 | Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2386 | Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2398 | Amending certain provisions involving dental hygienists | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2416 | Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2438 | Requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2487 | Ensuring Patient Safety Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2511 | Providing a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident may be donated to free health care clinics in the state | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2562 | Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2572 | Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2581 | Requiring notice of an abortion to be provided to the father of the unborn child | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2727 | Creating the criminal offense of injury to a pregnant woman that results in miscarriage or stillbirth | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2754 | Requiring that employers perform criminal history background checks for employees working as in-home health care providers | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2792 | Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2806 | Relating to setting in which a dental hygienist may perform their duties without direct supervision | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2902 | Allowing a woman of child bearing age to complete an advance directive, to include information as to what effect the advance directive shall have if she is pregnant | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2904 | Emergency Contraception Education Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2905 | Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2922 | Relating to exempting physicians from obtaining Medicaid preauthorization for certain medical conditions | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2978 | Genetic Information Privacy Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2993 | Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2996 | Establishing a Doctor's Disciplinary Review Board | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3003 | No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3014 | Pharmaceutical Availability and Affordability Act of 2007 | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3035 | Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3037 | Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3055 | Requiring pediatric dentists that administer general anesthesia to pediatric patients to comply with certain requirements for personnel, operating facilities, equipment, monitoring procedures, recovery and discharge | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3058 | Providing that when any body part of an unborn child is outside the womb, the child is born, and is considered a citizen of the state | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3077 | Prohibiting state funding of abortions | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3099 | Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3108 | Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3111 | Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3126 | Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3128 | Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3156 | Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3160 | Allowing certain physician assistants to conduct involuntary custody examinations | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3187 | Requiring facilities providing abortions to obtain parental notification or consent in writing | 01/09/08 |
| HB 4071 | Creating a Maternal Mortality Review Team | 01/17/08 |
| HB 4135 | Permitting adult adoptees to obtain uncertified copies of their original birth certificates and providing birth parents with consent preference and medical history forms | 01/23/08 |
| HB 4142 | Reducing the number of individuals who receive duplicate prescriptions from multiple physicians | 01/23/08 |
| HB 4143 | Prohibiting the use of the body of an unborn baby for certain purposes | 01/23/08 |
| HB 4166 | Relating to the unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry or as a physician assistant | 01/24/08 |
| HB 4298 | Abortion Complication Reporting Act | 01/28/08 |
| HB 4306 | Prohibiting the performance of any abortion by any person who has admitted to or who has been adjudicated to have committed medical malpractice | 01/28/08 |
| HB 4315 | Limiting the Department of Health and Human Resources involvement in abortions | 01/29/08 |
| HB 4317 | Relating to using alternate medical facilities under West Virginia's emergency response plan | 01/29/08 |
| HB 4334 | Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a women suffered injury or death due to induced abortion | 01/30/08 |
| HB 4336 | Prohibiting any person who is not a physician licensed to practice in this state from performing an abortion | 01/30/08 |
| HB 4356 | Allowing a hospital physician to decline performing an abortion when a mother's life is not in imminent danger | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4359 | Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4367 | Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4392 | Banning abortions in instances where the fetus could survive if delivered and providing penalties | 02/04/08 |
| HB 4412 | Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4417 | Imposing a smoking ban at medical facilities | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4427 | Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less | 02/05/08 |
| HB 4463 | Prohibiting the destruction of frozen embryos | 02/07/08 |
| HB 4470 | Requiring medical facilities that provide abortions to administer anesthesia to an unborn fetus when aborted, if it is older than seven weeks | 02/08/08 |
| HB 4538 | Requiring physicians and medical institutions to report where abortions have been performed due to perceived congenital defects of fetuses | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4596 | Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4599 | Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities | 02/18/08 |