Bill Status - 2010 Regular Session
Committee Activity
92 Bills Pending in Committee — House Health and Human Resources
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 120 | Requiring certain students provide dental exam proof | 02/26/10 |
| SB 373 | Creating Caregivers Consent Act | 03/04/10 |
| HB 2019 | Prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2028 | 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 | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2029 | Ensuring that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate in any abortion-related activity | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2034 | Relating to the eliminating of mercury in vaccines | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2035 | Requiring a woman, prior to an abortion, to have a pregnancy test administered at the facility where the abortion is to be performed | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2039 | Establishing the Consent to Health Care of Minors Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2053 | Prohibiting pharmacists and other persons involved in dispensing medicines from refusing to fill prescriptions | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2054 | 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 | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2055 | Requiring nursing homes to publicly post staffing information and granting rights to family councils | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2057 | Requiring the department of health and human resources to enforce specific abortion clinic regulations | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2058 | No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2065 | Relating to issuing a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2100 | Relating to treatment for drug and alcohol addiction | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2111 | Expanding the West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of certain state employees | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2146 | Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2237 | Establishing the crime of partial birth infanticide | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2238 | Providing rape victims with reliable emergency information regarding pregnancy and abortion, and providing those victims with emergency contraception if they desire | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2248 | Requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2255 | Relating to the "Mandated Benefits Review Act" | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2257 | Prohibiting family planning centers that receive state funding from discussing abortion | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2263 | Requiring medical practitioners who perform abortions to estimate the gestational age of the fetus by using ultrasound | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2278 | Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local service area | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2302 | Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2303 | 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 | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2313 | Requiring that every woman seeking an abortion be given the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2364 | Providing standards for hospitals' charity care programs and bad debt collection programs | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2374 | Requiring any faith-based facility that counsels women regarding contraception, abortion or pregnancy to maintain a quality assurance program | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2377 | Providing for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2431 | Emergency Contraception Education Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2455 | Relating to parental notification requirements for obtaining abortions by unemancipated minors | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2516 | Prohibiting a business or organization from performing abortions in a public facility | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2518 | Expanding West Virginia Children's Health Insurance Program to children of employees whose annual income is twenty-five thousand dollars or less | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2520 | Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2543 | 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 | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2574 | Prohibiting certain nursing homes from using state funds for activities unrelated to the provision of health care services | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2583 | Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian without written consent from minor | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2611 | Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent by both parents | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2614 | Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2644 | Relating to prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2646 | Defining the term "Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan" in the public employees insurance act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2647 | Prohibiting the establishment of methadone treatment programs and clinics except those operated by comprehensive community mental health centers | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2648 | Protecting the privacy of a person's prescription information | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2679 | Providing a tax credit to medical providers in an amount equal to their investment in electronic medical record technology | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2706 | Relating to exempting physicians from obtaining Medicaid preauthorization for certain medical conditions | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2717 | Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2720 | Genetic Information Privacy Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2746 | Raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2780 | Emergency Credentialing for Health Care Providers Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2797 | Prohibiting state funding of abortions | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2847 | Prohibiting the use of the body of a fetus for certain purposes | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2848 | Requiring development of a program for payment of personal needs funds to Medicaid recipients in nursing homes | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2978 | Relating to the practice of optometry | 01/13/10 |
| HB 2979 | Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3021 | Medication Administration by Certified Medicine Aides Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3060 | Prohibiting the establishment of new methadone treatment programs and clinics except for programs operated as community health centers and requiring all community health center methadone programs to monitor patient's pharmacy registry | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3069 | Providing medical and nonmedical exemptions from mandatory immunizations for school children | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3088 | Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3126 | Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3159 | Prohibiting moneys from any state fund or funding source to be expended for any abortion unless the abortion qualifies for federal funding under Medicaid | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3162 | Prohibiting coverage for abortions under insurance plans provided under the Public Employees Insurance Act | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3165 | Repealing article of the code granting a business license to sell drug paraphernalia | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3238 | Requiring brand pharmaceuticals manufacturers and pharmacies to allow patients to return unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for safe disposal | 01/13/10 |
| HB 3247 | Requiring any person licensed to prescribe drugs to check with the State Board of Pharmacy before initially prescribing certain drugs to a new patient to determine if said patient is engaging in doctor shopping | 01/13/10 |
| HB 4024 | Broadening the circumstances and types of prescriptions a physician assistant may issue | 01/13/10 |
| HB 4221 | Permitting a person who has practiced nuclear medicine technology for a certain time to be eligible for licensure | 01/28/10 |
| HB 4243 | Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensing and Regulation Act | 01/29/10 |
| HB 4269 | Restricting the sale of drug paraphernalia to licensed pharmacies | 02/02/10 |
| HB 4302 | Ensuring Patient Safety Act | 02/02/10 |
| HB 4411 | Relating to the care of aborted fetuses | 02/09/10 |
| HB 4426 | Ending the requirement that health facilities acquire a certificate of need to open | 02/10/10 |
| HB 4434 | Expanding prescriptive authority of advanced nurse practitioners | 02/10/10 |
| HB 4462 | Allowing a modification reducing federal adjusted gross when medical expenses exceed $2,000 a year | 02/12/10 |
| HB 4488 | Prohibiting cloning human embryos in state medical schools, colleges or universities | 02/12/10 |
| HB 4517 | Requiring that a person who is undergoing an abortion be offered the opportunity to view available ultrasound images of the fetus | 02/16/10 |
| HB 4520 | Prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against or refusing treatment of a patient | 02/17/10 |
| HB 4528 | Requiring the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute to develop a plan regarding neurodegenerative diseases | 02/18/10 |
| HB 4533 | Relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Medicine | 02/18/10 |
| HB 4551 | Prohibiting state funding of abortions | 02/18/10 |
| HB 4555 | Permitting persons with schizophrenic "reality disorder" two opportunities to sign a durable power of attorney | 02/18/10 |
| HB 4562 | Encouraging and assisting persons diagnosed with schizophrenic reality disorder in designating a durable medical power of attorney | 02/18/10 |
| HB 4569 | Reviewing the rates of all stand alone rehabilitation hospitals and developing and implementing a rate methodology | 02/19/10 |
| HB 4571 | Abortion Complication Reporting Act | 02/19/10 |
| HB 4572 | Utilization of Unused Prescription Medications Act | 02/19/10 |
| HB 4607 | Establishing the Oral Health Pilot Program in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4610 | Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4613 | Permitting unlicensed personnel to administer medications in certain circumstances | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4633 | Permitting a medical services provider under certain circumstances to inspect certain confidential information concerning controlled substances | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4640 | Initiating the Healthy Lifestyles Restaurant Calorie Posting Program | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4649 | Relating to health care forms and data | 02/22/10 |
| HB 4654 | Limiting storage of methyl isocyanate | 02/22/10 |