Actions, Suits and Liens (30 Bills)
HB 4013 - Relating to admissibility of certain evidence in a civil action for damages
HB 4176 - Establishing of the West Virginia Public Participation Act
HB 4234 - No guardian ad litem is needed on adoptions if both parents sign a relinquishment
HB 4297 - Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act
HB 4334 - Exemption from marriage and license participation
HB 4358 - To prohibit state jurisdiction over out of state divorces
HB 4360 - A court has venue for adoption if it had jurisdiction over guardianships
HB 4383 - Relating to damages for medical monitoring; establishing requirements for an order for payment of medical monitoring expenses
HB 4442 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4533 - Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian
HB 4565 - Ban civil asset forfeiture unless person convicted
HB 4579 - To prohibit punishment for teachers who refuse to use pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex
HB 4590 - To allow for modification of a family court order involving drugs in certain circumstances
HB 4595 - Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
HB 4603 - To create the Occupational Licensing Legal Fund in the State Treasury
HB 4641 - Repealing antiquated provisions relating to gaming activities
HB 4691 - Relating to preventing compensatory damage awards for medical expenses from including certain sums
HB 4965 - Mandating restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death
HB 4973 - To clarify the limit on liability for noneconomic damages
HB 4980 - Relating to choice of law provisions in franchise agreements
HB 5009 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 5193 - Relating to financial exploitation of a person in recovery
HB 5206 - To choose to not vaccinate children does not amount to abuse and neglect
HB 5316 - Adding exceptions to Article 7B of Chapter 55 of this code to which the provisions of Article 7B shall no longer apply
HB 5446 - To create the felony offense for protestors blocking passage on streets and highways.
HB 5539 - Providing that causes of action under Chapter 46A of the Code of West Virginia survive the death of the party
HB 5600 - Creating a private cause of action for the deprivation of a right granted by the state constitution or by state law
HB 5621 - Prohibiting the termination of employment of an employee who defends themselves from an attack inside workplace
HB 5643 - Relating to actions for damages or attorney’s fees in cases involving Board of Risk Management and Insurance
HB 5651 - Relating to entry upon or recovery of lands.
Agriculture (20 Bills)
HB 4169 - Establish food desert produce pilot program
HB 4275 - Eliminating West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund
HB 4337 - Relating to racetrack casino decoupling
HB 4363 - To permit the ownership of Japanese quail as pets without a permit so long as the quail are not kept for commercial purposes
HB 4605 - Agricultural Right to Repair Act
HB 4736 - Creating the West Virginia Farm Fresh Dairy Act
HB 4745 - Exempting Coturnix quail from the game farm requirement if they are owned for agricultural purposes
HB 4891 - Removing authority of Agriculture Commissioner to increase certain fees by rules or regulations
HB 4935 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 4974 - To create the Save our Farmland and Protect our National Security Act
HB 5040 - Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement
HB 5044 - Relating to cruelty to animals
HB 5066 - Prohibit e-bikes from being used for hunting
HB 5086 - To create the Food Safety Act
HB 5140 - Allowing certain slaughterhouses sell meat products direct to consumer in individual amounts
HB 5171 - Farm Direct Feed Sales Exemption
HB 5322 - Local Meat Processing Economic Development Act
HB 5349 - West Virginia Truth in Food Labeling Act
HB 5353 - Prohibiting foreign adversaries from the purchase or ownership of agricultural land in this state
HB 5533 - Relating to clarifying the Right to Farm Act relating to residential agricultural operations and the protection of agriculture
Alcoholic Liquors and Beers (11 Bills)
HB 4298 - Allowing a person to manufacture a stated amount of alcoholic liquor for personal consumption
HB 4355 - To permit home distilling of bourbon
HB 4514 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 4531 - Relating generally to forfeiture of contraband
HB 4646 - Allowing a bar to purchase liquor from a distillery or a mini-distillery
HB 4702 - Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places
HB 4793 - Relating to distilled liquor
HB 4841 - Relating to vintage distilled spirits
HB 5012 - To remove references to the sale or distribution of alcohol as being in the best interest of the state.
HB 5294 - Revising state law regulating farm wineries
HB 5631 - To allow wine to be served at outdoor gatherings where beer is permitted to be served.
Appropriations (8 Bills)
HB 4452 - Relating to “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue under certain circumstances
HB 4499 - Requiring 50 percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue
HB 4516 - Revoke spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to WV law
HB 4640 - Relating to the transfer of certain revenues derived from lottery activities
HB 4781 - To fund repairs and renovations for the West Virginia Children’s Home in Randolph County.
HB 4835 - Increasing transparency in the apportionment process for congressional and legislative districts
HB 5014 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to West Virginia University General Administration Fund
HB 5483 - Appropriating $100,000 to Texas for the purpose of acquiring more razor wire
Banking and Finance (10 Bills)
HB 4217 - Relating to merging of intrastate banks
HB 4371 - Creating the WV Community Development Equity Fund
HB 4780 - Reorganizing the Board of Banking and Financial Institutions, the Division of Financial Institutions, and the Lending and Credit Rate Board
HB 4801 - Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office
HB 4837 - Clarifying the duty of banks to retain and procure records
HB 4985 - Relating to Securities Restitution Assistance Fund
HB 5000 - Modifying the method in which credit card providers issue cards to users before the expiration date
HB 5369 - Transparency and Accountability Act
HB 5648 - Relating to fees for checks and money order sales, money transmission services, transportation and currency exchange
HB 5649 - Relating generally to the use of gold and silver as legal tender in the State of West Virginia
Boards and Commissions (36 Bills)
HB 4008 - Amending the time required for providing notice of an entry on to land for visiting a grave from ten days to five
HB 4185 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 4279 - Relating to the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board
HB 4345 - State may not participate in or join the national school board association
HB 4377 - To protect homeowners from unscrupulous contractors
HB 4418 - Bifurcating the ethics commission
HB 4443 - Relating generally to the distribution of certain taxes and surcharges to benefit volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments
HB 4567 - Prohibit businesses from having licenses revoked for not requiring masks
HB 4599 - Relating to state boards of examination or registration
HB 4612 - Relating to social determinants of health
HB 4724 - To require that Public Service District Boards that represent more than one community to have at least one member from each community on the board.
HB 4765 - Exempt health care workers' addresses from being made public
HB 4840 - To include legal services under the state purchasing requirements to require the solicitation of bids.
HB 4887 - Reducing the term of office for Berkeley County Commisioners from six years to four years.
HB 4910 - Relating to providing an exemption to be eligible for a hearing-aid fitting and dealing licensure
HB 4949 - To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county.
HB 5013 - Relating to Timber Management
HB 5015 - To create the Rural Area Department Volunteer Incentive Act of 2024
HB 5060 - To create a partisan election for county board of education members.
HB 5082 - Exempt those with 25 years holding an insurance license from attaining additional CEUs
HB 5113 - To make the fire board or county commission responsible for the operations of every fire department within their county
HB 5168 - Providing for the election of county school superintendents to four year terms.
HB 5201 - Addressing the number of ambulance squads needed per affected population in every county
HB 5233 - Requiring the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to post all meeting notices per Open Meetings Act on their website
HB 5348 - Changing the name of the “Raleigh County Recreation Authority” to the “Raleigh County Parks and Recreation Authority”
HB 5355 - Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases
HB 5382 - Relating to setting a date by which convention and visitor’s bureaus shall be accredited in order to be eligible for distribution of hotel occupancy tax proceeds.
HB 5433 - To modify requirements of Funeral Service Directors/Embalmers
HB 5508 - Relating to requiring certain transfers and disbursement of funds
HB 5538 - To modify the parole eligibility for a person serving a sentence for first degree murder
HB 5566 - To facilitate the interstate practice and regulation of Cosmetology
HB 5634 - Empowering the Homeland Security Inspector General to oversee/investigate all County Metro 911 Agencies.
HB 5640 - Relating to the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board and shceduled meetings
HB 5660 - Modifying the authority of the county fire board to request a fee change
HB 5677 - Relating to the appellate court for appeals of level 3 decisions issued by the Public Employees Grievance Board.
HB 5678 - Raising the compensation rates of panel attorneys
Claims (1 Bills)
HB 5595 - Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims
Constitutional Officers (5 Bills)
HB 4404 - Any judgment by a mayor, any individual exercising the mayor’s functions, the police court judge, or municipal judge of city be obligated to the Model Rules of Judicial Conduct.
HB 4498 - To permit retired magistrates to have the ability to carry concealed weapons without paying fee
HB 4582 - Allowing treasurer to invest in gold and silver
HB 4657 - Constitutional Officer Housing allowance
HB 4695 - Make appointment process for Congressional seats the same as that for the US Senate
Consumer Protection (24 Bills)
HB 4286 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 4347 - Establishing certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties
HB 4381 - West Virginia Consumer Privacy Act of 2024
HB 4441 - Provide certain classes of property protections from creditor collections
HB 4529 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 4541 - Relating to law enforcement warrant for third party information
HB 4544 - Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products
HB 4546 - Relating to data disposal protection
HB 4615 - Creating a State Central Legal Advertising Website
HB 4618 - Make the Consumer Advocate division separate and independent from the PSC
HB 4801 - Relating generally to the banking authority of the State Treasurer’s Office
HB 4807 - Establishing limitations on billing practices of Internet or telecommunications providers that fail to provide subscribed customers service for five or more days
HB 4886 - Relating to spam phone calls.
HB 4941 - Businesses in WV must accept cash
HB 5000 - Modifying the method in which credit card providers issue cards to users before the expiration date
HB 5084 - Require retailers to verify identification and age upon purchase of vape products
HB 5112 - Consumer Data Protection Act
HB 5123 - Clarify pricing for gasoline to consuers
HB 5228 - Requiring a telemarketer’s location must be indicated on customer’s caller ID
HB 5250 - Relating to combatting gift card fraud
HB 5251 - Relating to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
HB 5338 - Relating to Safe Harbor for Cybersecurity Programs
HB 5367 - Internet Reliability Act
HB 5667 - Protecting sports fans who participate in real-money fantasy sports, skill-based contests to ensure that operators of these contests meet appropriate compliance and financial standards in order to be suitable for licensure and operation within the state.
Corporations (4 Bills)
HB 4175 - Establishing workers cooperative corporations
HB 5010 - Adopting the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination Act.
HB 5291 - To require retail businesses to accept small amounts of cash
HB 5615 - Prohibiting contracts with companies that use illegal means
Corrections (28 Bills)
HB 4020 - Prohibit Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from making inmates pay co-payment for medical or dental service by a doctor or nurse
HB 4188 - Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service.
HB 4203 - Provide wardens with ability to use inmates to perform work in the upkeep local cemeteries
HB 4222 - Relating generally to probation and parole
HB 4223 - Requiring the West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide an inmate with one physical copy of their birth certificate and social security card upon release
HB 4240 - Reentry Task Force
HB 4261 - Make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force
HB 4278 - Relating to private prisons
HB 4312 - To provide for a pay raise for staff at correctional institutions
HB 4459 - Relating to intentionally fleeing or attempting to flee in a vehicle from a law-enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer
HB 4539 - Require Correctional Facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products
HB 4554 - Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested
HB 4649 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 4668 - Adding Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees who work at institutions managed by the Commissioner to the Survivor Benefits Act
HB 4671 - Create a prison work pilot program
HB 4734 - To provide a pay increase to state correctional workers in West Virginia
HB 4790 - Split the jail bills among the cities, counties, and the state.
HB 4842 - Basic Affordable Supplies for Incarcerated Act
HB 5016 - Allow women to work on inmate road crews
HB 5029 - To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.
HB 5337 - Establishing the legislative oversight committee of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
HB 5358 - Creating an ombudsman program within the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to review complaints against a state agency or correctional facility.
HB 5359 - Relating to recognizing the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers employed by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
HB 5363 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation to continue the GOALS Programs in regional jails.
HB 5368 - Relating to the creation of Regional Jail Commissions.
HB 5531 - Increasing correctional officer pay by 12% increase
HB 5628 - Require Corrections authorities to gather an inmate’s identification documents prior to release
HB 5655 - Require inmates to get GED before release from prison
Counties (42 Bills)
HB 4185 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 4213 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4262 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
HB 4285 - Allotting counties $5,000 per deputy position to only be used for deputy pay raises
HB 4621 - Relating to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation posting booking photographs of an accused person
HB 4624 - Requiring counties provide fiscal information for State Auditor’s WV Checkbook website
HB 4636 - Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements
HB 4670 - To include electric-powered school busses in the county foundation allowance
HB 4673 - Limit number of visitor bureaus that can exist in a county
HB 4723 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 4728 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 4729 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 4778 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association
HB 4779 - Repeal requirements of comprehensive zoning ordinance for county to collect development fees
HB 4790 - Split the jail bills among the cities, counties, and the state.
HB 4856 - To limit the number of vape stores and head shops to one for every 15,000 residents per county
HB 4870 - To create an influx into the courthouse improvement fund to allow counties to apply for grants to improve their courthouse facilities.
HB 4872 - Require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases
HB 4888 - Requiring ten percent of all state revenues derived from sales tax, excise tax, severance tax, or generated by any other means be placed in General Revenue and returned to the County Division of Highways
HB 4935 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 4949 - To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county.
HB 4962 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4991 - Eliminating cap on maximum amount of money in a county’s stabilization fund
HB 5009 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 5071 - State to reimburse county for inmate costs when conviction results in credit for time served
HB 5072 - To require drones used by state and county personnel to be produced in the United States
HB 5102 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 5113 - To make the fire board or county commission responsible for the operations of every fire department within their county
HB 5115 - Relating to the valuation of farm property
HB 5122 - Relating to civil service for deputy sheriffs
HB 5172 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 5173 - Relating to the election rather than appointment of members of the Parks and Recreation Commission of a county with a population greater than one hundred and fifty thousand.
HB 5201 - Addressing the number of ambulance squads needed per affected population in every county
HB 5216 - Requiring all counties to establish a fire levy to support volunteer fire departments and EMS.
HB 5279 - Require all counties to link the records to one another
HB 5403 - 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.
HB 5406 - To fund the Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement Fund from the DMV in the form of a 50-cent payment from every registration sold/renewed in the state
HB 5418 - To give County Sheriffs overall approval in requirements for the position of Bailiff
HB 5485 - Relating to ensuring the $1 service fee for the renewal of vehicle registration is dedicated to the county sheriff for contribution to the county general fund and the deputy sheriff’s retirement system.
HB 5486 - To establish the County Home Rule Program as a permanent program.
HB 5657 - To permit bridges and highways to be named for distinct residential communities that are traditionally identified by a single name as a separate community or town without being incorporated and remain a part of the county services., naming these communities as villages
HB 5660 - Modifying the authority of the county fire board to request a fee change
County Officials (8 Bills)
HB 4284 - Allowing for a paid commission for sheriffs
HB 4442 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4478 - Limiting the maximum number of appointees to certain county and municipal bodies
HB 4854 - Prohibit county clerk from charging or prohibiting person from taking pictures of public documents
HB 4858 - Requiring annual report to the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary regarding statements of charges brought against a judge of this state
HB 4887 - Reducing the term of office for Berkeley County Commisioners from six years to four years.
HB 5410 - Establish process for county elected officials with familial relationships regarding county finances
HB 5660 - Modifying the authority of the county fire board to request a fee change
Courts (28 Bills)
HB 4021 - Second Look Sentencing Act
HB 4177 - Directing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County
HB 4311 - Relating to granting the Intermediate Court of Appeals jurisdiction to hear certified questions
HB 4336 - Prohibiting an inheritance if found to have engaged in elder abuse against decedent
HB 4356 - Allow business owners to make undue burden claim to get excused from jury service
HB 4360 - A court has venue for adoption if it had jurisdiction over guardianships
HB 4384 - Change filing fees that circuit courts may charge
HB 4386 - Automatic CPS expungement if an individual is not found to have committed abuse and neglect by court order
HB 4533 - Establishing a procedure to name a kinship legal guardian
HB 4558 - To increase the amount of money given to jurors per day
HB 4566 - Repeal section relating to circuit courts having limited jurisdiction to hear divorce cases
HB 4581 - Provide that family court can order certain services
HB 4589 - Allow magistrate assistants to assess fines on basic charges
HB 4609 - To ensure that the WV Judiciary remains neutral and detached in matters related to allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children
HB 4858 - Requiring annual report to the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary regarding statements of charges brought against a judge of this state
HB 4870 - To create an influx into the courthouse improvement fund to allow counties to apply for grants to improve their courthouse facilities.
HB 5065 - Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
HB 5114 - Change the maximum time period of a protective order to one year
HB 5344 - Relating to testimony of cognitively delayed persons in open court and criminal penalties for assault of cognitively delayed persons
HB 5383 - To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election
HB 5384 - To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections
HB 5412 - Provide for a raise for private investigators hired by public defender offices or court appointed panel attorneys
HB 5423 - To allow mentally challenged person to be protected from testifying in an open court
HB 5430 - Relating to per diem compensation and expenses of newly elected or appointed judicial officers receiving education and training prior to taking the oath of office.
HB 5515 - Establishing pilot program for Public Guardian Ad Litem Services
HB 5520 - Relating to juvenile competency
HB 5526 - Program Design and Outcomes of Selected Pre-Petition Legal Representation Programs
HB 5581 - Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
Crime (141 Bills)
HB 4011 - To modify exemptions from criminal liability to include a distinction for biological lessons regarding reproduction.
HB 4021 - Second Look Sentencing Act
HB 4168 - Relating to online privacy protection for minors
HB 4173 - Increasing the penalties for exposure of governmental representatives to fentanyl or any other harmful drug
HB 4179 - Removing the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions
HB 4210 - Prohibiting payroll deductions to electioneering organizations
HB 4218 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 4235 - Creating the Fair Chance Act
HB 4236 - Safe Play Act
HB 4239 - Modifying the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a stopped school bus
HB 4246 - Making it a misdemeanor for a person to knowingly allow a felony drug offense to be committed on his or her property
HB 4250 - Establishing the crime of torture
HB 4251 - Relating to the offense of adulteration or alteration of medical cannabis testing results
HB 4252 - Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act
HB 4259 - To impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers
HB 4260 - To amend the laws relating to overtaking and passing school buses in West Virginia
HB 4268 - To make an attack on a K-9 officer a felony
HB 4273 - Relating to revising the criminal code generally
HB 4276 - Relating to transferred right of self-defense to a person who engages an active shooter on school grounds
HB 4287 - To create the Protection of Shared Physical and Digital Property from Warrantless Searches Act
HB 4288 - To create the Criminal Forfeiture Act
HB 4295 - Requiring a pharmacist to fill a prescription for individuals who have a valid prescription unless belief that prescription is fraudulent
HB 4299 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 4300 - Relating to accessories to a crime
HB 4301 - Allowing the concealed carry of firearms on and in Capitol grounds
HB 4302 - Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse
HB 4306 - Relating to Off Duty LEO and LEOSA Exemptions
HB 4344 - Grant automatic expungement of criminal records in certain instances
HB 4351 - To increase the penalty for passing a school bus and causing injury
HB 4361 - Provide for crime of impersonating non-public persons on social media
HB 4390 - Prohibiting the use of electronic tracking devices
HB 4396 - To criminalize joyriding of a bulldozer or heavy equipment
HB 4398 - Increasing the criminal penalty for littering and open dumping
HB 4399 - Creating the equitable right to expungement
HB 4400 - Relating to reasonable force in defense of self, real and personal property
HB 4410 - Impose criminal liability and penalties upon purchasers of goods for delivery who refuse to return rejected goods to the vendor after the purchaser has had their purchase money reimbursed
HB 4420 - Free range parenting is not classified as abuse and neglect
HB 4421 - Prohibit drag shows from being performed in front of minors and to prohibit people from dressing in drag when reading aloud during story time in schools.
HB 4437 - Make it a felony to kill a canine officer
HB 4450 - Relating to death penalty for first degree murder
HB 4459 - Relating to intentionally fleeing or attempting to flee in a vehicle from a law-enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer
HB 4460 - Relating to felony trespassing
HB 4473 - Removing certain drugs from schedule one
HB 4485 - Prohibiting civil rights violations based on disability, gender identity or sexual orientation
HB 4497 - To create a domestic violence registry
HB 4502 - Relating to sentencing for prohibited acts with a firearm
HB 4518 - Provide that someone guilty of a crime where victim was a police officer in performance of duties is ineligible for parole
HB 4530 - Creating a domestic violence registry
HB 4538 - Relating to extended supervision for certain drug offenders
HB 4573 - Updating the definition of ammunition relating to carry concealed weapons
HB 4574 - To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit, as is allowed for those who are 21 or older
HB 4577 - Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms
HB 4584 - Relating to the criminal forfeiture process act
HB 4587 - To create a crime to send someone abortion pills through the U.S. mail
HB 4651 - Increasing penalties sexual offenses
HB 4653 - Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder
HB 4654 - Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter
HB 4658 - To clarify when inmates may receive “good time” or time served
HB 4666 - Relating to establishing criminal penalties for human trafficking
HB 4742 - Relating to dangerous crimes against children
HB 4746 - Providing for the reintegration of inmates in correctional facilities
HB 4748 - Creating the Police Partnering with Communities Act
HB 4791 - Eliminating parole eligibility for the crimes of 1st degree murder and child abuse
HB 4805 - To create a division of election crimes and security within the office of the Secretary of State and give the Secretary of State the authority to recommend prosecution to the appropriate judicial jurisdiction.
HB 4825 - Relating to the prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures.
HB 4845 - To prohibit swatting
HB 4848 - To establish the aggravated criminal offense of reckless driving resulting in death.
HB 4885 - Relating to blocking roadways
HB 4894 - Expand exception to Spousal Privilege
HB 4920 - To create the felony offense for “swatting” another individual
HB 4934 - To make certain acts of panhandling and solicitation unlawful
HB 4935 - Providing increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals
HB 4938 - Increasing penalties for Corruption
HB 4965 - Mandating restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death
HB 4982 - Relating to sex crimes and marriage
HB 4994 - Relating to the Anti-Terrorism Act
HB 4998 - Modifying penalties for third offense shoplifting
HB 4999 - Creating exception to spousal privilege
HB 5007 - Clarifying that there is no restriction on the lawful carrying of a deadly weapon, firearm or pepper spray specifically on sidewalks and streets directly bordering and surrounding the State Capitol Complex grounds.
HB 5031 - Relating to human trafficking
HB 5043 - Relating to requirements, prohibitions and regulation of foreign principals or agents of foreign principals, lobbying by or on behalf of such foreign principals or their agents
HB 5067 - To remove the 2 year timeframe for medical malpractice suits to be filed ONLY for individuals who were minors when they had their procedures performed
HB 5068 - Make speeds that exceed 25MPH over the speed limit reckless driving.
HB 5088 - To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing
HB 5091 - West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act
HB 5108 - Providing authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days
HB 5114 - Change the maximum time period of a protective order to one year
HB 5116 - Permitting civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images
HB 5119 - Relating to Vehicular Homicide
HB 5130 - Relating to criminal trespass
HB 5132 - Increasing criminal penalties for repeat offenders for certain crimes
HB 5135 - To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit and to add a definition of the term “ammunition” relating to the requirements for obtaining a state permit to carry a concealed deadly weapon.
HB 5146 - Increase penalties for abuse of or cruelty to animals
HB 5156 - Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on the internet
HB 5167 - Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring
HB 5174 - Regarding Vehicular Homicide
HB 5184 - Inmates in WV jails must be housed based on biological sex
HB 5206 - To choose to not vaccinate children does not amount to abuse and neglect
HB 5222 - Creating the State Property Protection Act
HB 5235 - To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor
HB 5236 - Relating to coercive control in domestic violence
HB 5246 - Relating generally to unlawful restraint of dogs
HB 5266 - Relating to false abuse/neglect referrals in child abuse cases
HB 5278 - Defend the Guard Act
HB 5305 - Relating to impaired driving not eligible for deferred adjudication
HB 5306 - Relating to bribery or attempted bribery
HB 5307 - Modifying the crimes of petit larceny and grand larceny
HB 5308 - Repealing the provision of code related to anchoring or beaching shanty boats on lands of another
HB 5314 - Amending the mandatory penalties applying to third offense shoplifting
HB 5315 - Repealing the section of code related to the crime of possession of a machine gun
HB 5319 - Creating the offense of exposing persons to fentanyl
HB 5342 - Relating to the applicability of civil causes of action in cases involving surveillance.
HB 5344 - Relating to testimony of cognitively delayed persons in open court and criminal penalties for assault of cognitively delayed persons
HB 5345 - Relating to the registration requirements in the Sex Offender Registration Act.
HB 5360 - Clarifying the groups of persons to whom the criminal prohibitions related to child pornography are inapplicable when such persons are performing their official or employment duties.
HB 5364 - Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.
HB 5390 - Modifying the crime of fraud
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.
HB 5398 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 5400 - To allow for the deportation of illegal aliens to sanctuary city locations across the country.
HB 5402 - To make it a felony for a third party to receive money from any organization or person for purposes of influencing any member of legislature
HB 5404 - To adjust the current burglary code to add ‘Possession of burglarious tools’
HB 5415 - Relating to procedures regarding illegal entry into the state
HB 5439 - Provide that a person defending themselves or others while at work cannot be terminated
HB 5446 - To create the felony offense for protestors blocking passage on streets and highways.
HB 5488 - To codify that The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful users of drugs and those addicted to controlled substances, specifically marijuana, may not ship, receive, or possess a firearm
HB 5502 - Relating to the sex offender registration act
HB 5510 - Clarify law regarding the crime of witness tampering
HB 5516 - Relating to criminalizing the use of deep fakes
HB 5538 - To modify the parole eligibility for a person serving a sentence for first degree murder
HB 5567 - Relating to allowing medical or geriatric parole for certain inmates
HB 5578 - Modifying definition of sexual contact
HB 5597 - Relating to school bus driver charged with DUI
HB 5606 - Relating generally to money laundering
HB 5614 - Relating to postmortem examinations
HB 5634 - Empowering the Homeland Security Inspector General to oversee/investigate all County Metro 911 Agencies.
HB 5645 - To enable National Park Service Officers to enforce WV and local laws in the National Parks in this state.
HB 5654 - To require inmates in West Virginia jails and prisons to receive GED training.
HB 5659 - Relating to pretrial release
HB 5662 - Relating to adding “person in a position of trust” to certain crimes
HB 5663 - Relating to parole eligibility for the crime of murder in the second degree
Domestic Relations (33 Bills)
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.
HB 4234 - No guardian ad litem is needed on adoptions if both parents sign a relinquishment
HB 4252 - Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act
HB 4277 - To modify parenting if father encouraged an abortion
HB 4326 - An affirmative defense to violation of a parenting plan is a de facto parenting plan
HB 4327 - Relating to modifications of child support or alimony
HB 4334 - Exemption from marriage and license participation
HB 4335 - Providing clarity for expungement of domestic violence pretrial diversions
HB 4336 - Prohibiting an inheritance if found to have engaged in elder abuse against decedent
HB 4358 - To prohibit state jurisdiction over out of state divorces
HB 4370 - Ensuring that legal or biological parents have equal access to any and all copies of birth registry forms
HB 4386 - Automatic CPS expungement if an individual is not found to have committed abuse and neglect by court order
HB 4420 - Free range parenting is not classified as abuse and neglect
HB 4447 - To create the Responsible Fatherhood Act
HB 4497 - To create a domestic violence registry
HB 4520 - Recognize convictions of domestic battery in the fair and equitable distribution of marital property
HB 4536 - Relating to abolishing spousal support
HB 4561 - Allowing for child support arrears agreements that the Family Court must accept
HB 4562 - Relating to adoption attorneys
HB 4581 - Provide that family court can order certain services
HB 4590 - To allow for modification of a family court order involving drugs in certain circumstances
HB 4609 - To ensure that the WV Judiciary remains neutral and detached in matters related to allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children
HB 4643 - Establishing the Child Support from Conception Act
HB 4898 - Relating to foster or adoption parents sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender idenity
HB 4930 - Ensure that persons appointed as guardian’s ad litem in divorce and child custody and parenting cases are properly trained in certified courses of instruction with curricula grounded in the social science bases for determining the best interests of the child
HB 5053 - Creating a statutory right to petition circuit and family courts for sibling visitation
HB 5114 - Change the maximum time period of a protective order to one year
HB 5198 - Allow parents to file parenting plan in event the relationship ends
HB 5206 - To choose to not vaccinate children does not amount to abuse and neglect
HB 5330 - Require DHHR-CPS to notify the county school superintendent & local BOE president (of the public school system where the child attends) of pending CPS investigations.
HB 5398 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 5560 - Relating to makin 8:00pm the latest custody exchanges can happen for children under ten without agreement from both parties.
HB 5612 - Relating to including foster parents under the parental leave act
Economic Development (40 Bills)
HB 4197 - Relating to broadband and political subdivisions
HB 4198 - Relating generally to broadband
HB 4267 - Relating to the Certified Industrial Business Expansion Development Program
HB 4305 - Relating to granting in-state resident status to economic development participants
HB 4355 - To permit home distilling of bourbon
HB 4371 - Creating the WV Community Development Equity Fund
HB 4392 - Relating to state recognition of Native American tribes
HB 4483 - Be Exceptional Starting Today Act
HB 4496 - To create the West Virginia Small Business Payroll Tax Credit Pilot Program
HB 4504 - To expand recreational benefits to West Virginia Landowners to promote land ownership within the State, increase property value, bolster the State economy, and to provide additional benefits to West Virginia taxpayers
HB 4508 - Economic and Community Development Task Force
HB 4528 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 4582 - Allowing treasurer to invest in gold and silver
HB 4606 - Creating small business and minority populations economic and workforce development taskforce
HB 4610 - Creating special revenue account known as School Building Authority Agricultural, Vocational and Technical Training Facilities Grant Fund
HB 4642 - WV Small Business COVID Relief Act
HB 4704 - Creating Infrastructure Ready Jurisdictions
HB 4706 - Creating the utility pole rights of way and easement mapping initiative
HB 4748 - Creating the Police Partnering with Communities Act
HB 4752 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 4799 - Relating to certified industrial business expansion development programs
HB 4822 - Creating the Certified Sites and Development Readiness Program
HB 4824 - Relating to the Certified Industrial Business Expansion Development Program
HB 4905 - Relating to the Tourism and Commercial Opportunity Zone Tax and Tax Credit Act
HB 4915 - Creating Adopt-A-Trail volunteer programs for public land under DNR jurisdiction
HB 4924 - Creating the Office of Entrepreneurship within the Office of Economic Development
HB 4943 - To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses
HB 4977 - Requiring that if baby changing stations are installed by an establishment that these be put in both male and female restrooms
HB 5070 - Provide 25% Discount to WV Residents using State Parks
HB 5115 - Relating to the valuation of farm property
HB 5170 - Increasing the size of matching grants for local economic development from $30,000 to $50,000.
HB 5223 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 5291 - To require retail businesses to accept small amounts of cash
HB 5304 - Creating the Small Business Payroll Tax Credit
HB 5320 - Relating to economic development loans
HB 5370 - Relating to West Virginia’s citizens and businesses should be the priority of any attempt at economic development or stimulus
HB 5548 - Relating to modifying requirements imposed on any owner, operator, or manager within a tourism development project
HB 5555 - Creating the legislative oversight committee on aviation development
HB 5627 - WV Small Business COVID Relief Act
HB 5646 - Economic Development Authority Support for Emergency Medical Services
Education (1 Bills)
HB 4446 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
Education (Higher) (43 Bills)
HB 4172 - Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes
HB 4243 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 4271 - Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver
HB 4357 - To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care
HB 4387 - Relating to nondiscrimination at institutions of higher education
HB 4439 - Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities
HB 4500 - To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state
HB 4572 - Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions
HB 4629 - Hunger-Free Campus Act
HB 4637 - To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses
HB 4693 - Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
HB 4720 - Tuition and fee exemptions for service-connected Disabled Veterans and their dependents.
HB 4763 - Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission
HB 4814 - Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals
HB 4819 - To require higher education institutions in West Virginia to accept the CLT as an ACT or SAT equivalent.
HB 4846 - Relating to “In God We Trust” signs donated in schools
HB 4899 - WV Belief-Based Campus Student Organization Bill
HB 4919 - Relating to the Promise Scholarship
HB 4921 - Relating generally to tuition for children of out of state alumni of WV state universities.
HB 4939 - Banning certain practices by medical students without informed consent
HB 4945 - Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program
HB 4958 - To create the American Campuses Act
HB 4969 - To allow schools to withhold a diploma from students who cause at least $1,000 in damage due to destruction of property or defacement
HB 4981 - Gun carry allowed on college campuses
HB 4986 - Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners
HB 5038 - Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education
HB 5040 - Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement
HB 5050 - Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education.
HB 5078 - To include Salem University in programs wherein the Promise Scholarship is accepted
HB 5127 - Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”
HB 5141 - Universities must accept religious, medical, or right of conscience exemptions to taking vaccinations
HB 5153 - Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.
HB 5162 - Establish a program to promote creation and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs
HB 5175 - Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission.
HB 5210 - Relating to voluntary private school immunization
HB 5223 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 5347 - Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics
HB 5435 - Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education
HB 5513 - To create the Great Expectations Pilot Program
HB 5586 - Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods
HB 5594 - Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions.
HB 5625 - Relating to updating names of institutions of higher education and nondiscrimination in leadership positions
HB 5666 - The Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act
Education (K12) (187 Bills)
HB 4012 - Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals
HB 4171 - Relating to the special community development school pilot program
HB 4182 - Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools
HB 4186 - Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school
HB 4200 - Relating to pay for Board of Education members
HB 4202 - Raising salaries for school service personnel
HB 4204 - Relating to service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certifications
HB 4208 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 4220 - Providing that microschool tuition and fees are qualifying expenses for Hope Scholarship accounts
HB 4232 - To make the HOPE Scholarship applicable to all children
HB 4241 - To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia
HB 4242 - Establish the Commission on American History Enrichment
HB 4248 - Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services
HB 4260 - To amend the laws relating to overtaking and passing school buses in West Virginia
HB 4262 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
HB 4263 - Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel
HB 4269 - To exempt school buses from toll fees in West Virginia
HB 4282 - To allow parents to retain their child for an extra year of school without losing a year of sports eligibility
HB 4290 - To create the American Campuses Act
HB 4299 - Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer
HB 4303 - To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers
HB 4308 - Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools
HB 4313 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 4316 - To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field
HB 4322 - Amending Hope Scholarship eligibility
HB 4331 - To allow money paid to state employees to go to their estate if they pass away before their retirement date
HB 4332 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 4338 - To allow for the construction of safe entry ways to all public schools in West Virginia.
HB 4343 - Remove homeschool testing and portfolio requirements
HB 4345 - State may not participate in or join the national school board association
HB 4346 - To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state
HB 4349 - Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act
HB 4351 - To increase the penalty for passing a school bus and causing injury
HB 4365 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 4367 - Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state
HB 4369 - Relating to teacher salary enhancement
HB 4372 - To increase the 35 year limit on interval pay raises for teachers to 40 years
HB 4379 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4394 - Require county school boards to have members elected per district
HB 4412 - Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse
HB 4414 - To strengthen anti-hazing laws and policies for Pre-K to Grade 12
HB 4416 - Heart Health Equity Inclusion
HB 4417 - To recognize school social workers as having the same status and funding as school counselors
HB 4419 - Relating to classroom teachers and special education classroom teachers individualized education program requirements
HB 4446 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 4453 - Remove standardized testing in public and private schools
HB 4455 - To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present
HB 4457 - Remove assessments for homeschoolers
HB 4465 - Requiring party affiliation on school board elections
HB 4468 - Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act
HB 4471 - Modifying the school calendar
HB 4480 - To provide debt incentives for STEM teachers
HB 4488 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 4490 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 4491 - Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances
HB 4494 - To allow teachers can bank sick leave for years of service and/or insurance payments.
HB 4495 - Relating to WV Secondary School Activities
HB 4510 - Student Rescue Act
HB 4513 - Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child
HB 4542 - Creating a homeless education coordinator for county schools
HB 4553 - Relating to teacher duty-free lunch and daily planning periods
HB 4557 - Providing for contracted employment of substitute teachers for 180 instructional days
HB 4579 - To prohibit punishment for teachers who refuse to use pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex
HB 4586 - Bill to fund armed veterans at our schools.
HB 4604 - Creating the Virtual Public Schools Act
HB 4608 - Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools
HB 4610 - Creating special revenue account known as School Building Authority Agricultural, Vocational and Technical Training Facilities Grant Fund
HB 4649 - Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails
HB 4650 - Clarifying and updating school bus rules and the types of vehicles covered
HB 4663 - To implement trauma-informed practices in schools
HB 4670 - To include electric-powered school busses in the county foundation allowance
HB 4696 - Relating generally to the West Virginia State Athletic Commission
HB 4709 - Relating to vocational and technical education programs
HB 4713 - Requiring Director of transportation have 2 years experience for bus operator
HB 4733 - To allow classroom aides with 10 or more years of service and good evaluations to bid on teaching positions
HB 4767 - Relating to WV teaching salaries
HB 4768 - Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia.
HB 4769 - Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor.
HB 4773 - To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall.
HB 4774 - To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility.
HB 4776 - Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures
HB 4777 - Allow staff members in public schools to eat lunch for free if there is food left over after every student has been fed
HB 4778 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association
HB 4792 - To require principals to have additional training in certain subjects.
HB 4806 - Require bathroom use in schools based upon biological sex
HB 4808 - To allow retired school employees to work after 140 days in certain circumstances.
HB 4820 - To ensure free parking and school supplies for children in public schools.
HB 4821 - Requiring certain standards for virtual students in West Virginia.
HB 4829 - Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.
HB 4830 - To address the professional development of teachers.
HB 4832 - Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts
HB 4833 - Require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a “free/elective/assistant” period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them
HB 4838 - Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information
HB 4839 - Relating to online instructors contracted by the WVDE or counties.
HB 4840 - To include legal services under the state purchasing requirements to require the solicitation of bids.
HB 4846 - Relating to “In God We Trust” signs donated in schools
HB 4847 - To provide school access for Patriotic Youth Groups
HB 4851 - To allow for public and private schools in West Virginia to employ security personnel.
HB 4860 - Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs
HB 4862 - Introduction of a “School Safety Program”
HB 4863 - Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act
HB 4893 - To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,000
HB 4896 - Relating to eligibility requirements for student transfers to a public school for WVSSAC sanctioned sports
HB 4902 - To provide a raise for special education aides, as well as a raise for self-contained special education teachers.
HB 4903 - Relating to critical vacancies in public education
HB 4946 - Add as required material in public schools the teaching of the full Constitution of the United States, The Federalist Papers and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letters from Birmingham Jail
HB 4948 - Removing fees teachers have to pay in order to obtain any teaching license, certification, or additional continuing education credit hours (reporting fee) to the state Board of Education
HB 4951 - To facilitate the interstate practice of School Psychology in educational or school settings
HB 4959 - To exclude certain students from drop out rate data
HB 4960 - To establish career exploration courses
HB 4988 - To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide
HB 4990 - To allow for the WVSSAC to pull coaching certificates of coaches who are found guilty of illegal recruiting
HB 5011 - Relating generally to transfer of high school athletes.
HB 5027 - Relating to State-funded institutions to purchase food from in-state sources
HB 5036 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 5040 - Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement
HB 5046 - Removal of Mandatory Homeschool Reporting
HB 5056 - Relating to substitute service personnel positions
HB 5059 - Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses
HB 5060 - To create a partisan election for county board of education members.
HB 5075 - Relating to human growth and development curriculum
HB 5081 - Relating to any school employee before being hired must pass a CPS background check
HB 5087 - To allow Tier II teachers to be able to bank unused sick time towards retirement.
HB 5095 - Require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in a grant writing procedures.
HB 5105 - To eliminate the vaccine requirements for public virtual schools.
HB 5111 - Create the Statewide Online Education Act
HB 5124 - The purpose of this bill is to remove the restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum, and allow for taxpayers to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom.
HB 5137 - Relating to requiring the State Auditor to conduct audits of all county boards of education
HB 5139 - Allow teachers to bank personal and sick days.
HB 5143 - Allowing for Religious Exemptions of Vaccine Requirements in Primary and Secondary Schools
HB 5144 - No vaccine mandate for schools
HB 5152 - To permit students in Christian schools at the elementary and middle school level to participate in county level sport tournaments
HB 5158 - Relating to making technical corrections to the special education code
HB 5168 - Providing for the election of county school superintendents to four year terms.
HB 5179 - Relating to the creation of “Jaycie’s Law.”
HB 5180 - Removing requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home schooled children
HB 5189 - Provide tax credit for homeschool students
HB 5191 - Relating to permitting obscenity in schools
HB 5195 - Create a half day position for all school service personnel
HB 5196 - To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination
HB 5197 - To make school resource officers (“SROs”) part of the school funding formula
HB 5199 - Provide for exemption from required physical education
HB 5200 - Requiring that school counselors serving students in preschool through the 12th grade participate in the School Counselors Conference at least once every two years
HB 5210 - Relating to voluntary private school immunization
HB 5227 - Requiring age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust
HB 5249 - Vaccine exemption for private, parochial, charter, virtual charter, and remote public schools.
HB 5252 - Requiring certain minimum experience for the director or coordinator of services class title involving school transportation.
HB 5262 - Relating generally to teacher’s bill of rights
HB 5277 - Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices
HB 5289 - To allow for the implementation of Educational Software in West Virginia public schools.
HB 5290 - To create “Holocaust Education Week”
HB 5292 - Relating to Extracurricular Inclusion and Learning Pod Freedom
HB 5300 - Moving the school system from a 5 day work week into a 4 day work week.
HB 5301 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5302 - Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools
HB 5325 - Relating to the Pledge of Allegiance in schools
HB 5329 - Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers
HB 5330 - Require DHHR-CPS to notify the county school superintendent & local BOE president (of the public school system where the child attends) of pending CPS investigations.
HB 5346 - To clean up statutory provisions regarding the Hope Scholarship program to better reflect the intent and operation of the program
HB 5356 - Prohibiting registered sex offenders from utilizing school-based health centers
HB 5405 - Providing additional professional development and support to West Virginia educators through teacher and leader induction and professional growth.
HB 5425 - Relating to clarifying the amount of experience required in the hiring of professional education personnel
HB 5431 - Permitting county boards of education to send parents of students who are chronically disruptive the pro-rated amount of their education and to remove them from the school system for a year to continue their education
HB 5436 - To allow elected members of county Boards of Education to be short-term substitute teachers
HB 5442 - Free to Speak Act
HB 5484 - Relating to age appropriate instruction in health education
HB 5504 - To make it explicit that both the lottery fund and the excess lottery fund can be utilized for early childhood education throughout West Virginia
HB 5514 - Enhancing training requirements for county boards of education members.
HB 5517 - To require a statewide public school calendar to begin no earlier that September 1 and end no later than May 31
HB 5518 - To adjust the School Aid Formula’s Transportation calculations from its current standard of student enrollment to school bus mileage traveled daily
HB 5527 - To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.
HB 5540 - Relating to fentanyl prevention and awareness Education (Laken’s Law)
HB 5551 - Relating to continuing education concerning domestic violence.
HB 5553 - To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards
HB 5556 - Comprehensive Services Act
HB 5563 - Adding a proviso that any county will open attendance zones and an existing transportaion Arrangement shall not be permitted to close the open attendance zone reestablish closed boarders or modify existing transportation routes or arrangements for any current or future students who chooose to utilize these options
HB 5598 - Requiring a shcool administrator and local Board of Education to assess whether a student is in the foster care system or undre the supervision of Child Protective Services prior to being disiplined for a level 3 or 4 behavior policy violation
HB 5607 - Relating to public charter school’s application for funding.
HB 5650 - Allow suspended school personnel to enter school property functions open to the public
HB 5653 - To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility
HB 5654 - To require inmates in West Virginia jails and prisons to receive GED training.
HB 5658 - To require all projects funded by the school building authority to have an assessment of school safety when a new project is created.
HB 5661 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5671 - Medical Redshirt Bill for High School Students
HB 5673 - Consolidate county school boards
HB 5687 - To repurpose retired military service dogs for use in West Virginia public schools.
Elected Officials (1 Bills)
HB 4492 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
Elections (72 Bills)
HB 4004 - Relating to formerly incarcerated individuals voting rights
HB 4016 - Prohibiting the delivery of unsolicited absentee ballot applications to any person who has not specifically requested one from the county clerk
HB 4017 - To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws
HB 4018 - Provisions for election observers during any election and at any voting or ballot-reviewing and ballot-counting location within West Virginia
HB 4191 - Relating to requirements imposed on social media companies to prevent corruption and provide transparency of election-related content made available on social media websites
HB 4205 - Relating to changing the process of election litigation
HB 4206 - To clarify the postmark date for election announcements
HB 4210 - Prohibiting payroll deductions to electioneering organizations
HB 4257 - To require all electronic voting systems to be manufactured in the United States
HB 4270 - To limit the amount of ballot propositions.
HB 4350 - Relating to appointment of candidates after filing period
HB 4354 - Provide voters with the ability to identify and verify their ballot cast in a statewide election
HB 4388 - Requiring sign up to run as an independent in January of election year
HB 4389 - Relating to state political party committees
HB 4422 - Require special elections to be held same day as primary or general election
HB 4426 - To require all election voting precincts to be in different physical locations so that no voting locations share precincts.
HB 4427 - To require voters to include either their West Virginia driver’s license number or any alternative identification information authorized by the West Virginia Secretary of State on their absentee ballot applications.
HB 4428 - Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking.
HB 4436 - Require all municipal elections be held on the same election day in November that other state elections are on
HB 4446 - Providing school days to register and transport students to vote
HB 4461 - Refer instances of election fraud to the attorney general for prosecution
HB 4465 - Requiring party affiliation on school board elections
HB 4466 - Prohibit electronic ballots
HB 4467 - Relating to automatic voter registration
HB 4469 - Authorizing a special election for presenting the question of a special levy renewal for levies expiring prior to the primary election scheduled for May 14, 2024
HB 4472 - Creating online voters' guide
HB 4475 - Permit registered voters to vote an absentee ballot by mail in all circumstances
HB 4476 - Allowing the Secretary of State’s office to transmit electronically the total ballots cast, counted, and rejected
HB 4481 - Convention of states delegates have penalties for deviating from what they were sent to convention for
HB 4501 - Changing the local school board election from the Primary to the General
HB 4545 - Permitting anyone over 65 to vote absentee
HB 4547 - Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from voting
HB 4552 - To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration
HB 4564 - Faithless Elector law
HB 4591 - Give a 10-day right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals a Secretary of State decision to not certify a candidacy.
HB 4664 - Emergency Absentee Ballot Preparedness Act
HB 4675 - Require all registered voters to produce a photo ID to vote in all public office elections
HB 4699 - Prohibiting persons convicted of a felony related to interfering with an election related proceeding of the United States Congress from running for or election to a public office
HB 4725 - Relating to Election Runoff
HB 4788 - Relating to when Mail In Ballots are Due
HB 4805 - To create a division of election crimes and security within the office of the Secretary of State and give the Secretary of State the authority to recommend prosecution to the appropriate judicial jurisdiction.
HB 4836 - Relating to modernization of procedures for voting in public elections
HB 4843 - Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration
HB 4955 - Relating to the nonpartisan election of county superintendents of schools
HB 4963 - Prohibiting the use of deep fake technology to influence an election
HB 5030 - Relating to Election Interference
HB 5035 - To require voter ID cards to come with a photograph of the individual
HB 5060 - To create a partisan election for county board of education members.
HB 5077 - Establishing residency requirements for candidates seeking nomination and election to United States Congress
HB 5125 - Requiring absentee ballots to be received by the time polls close on election day.
HB 5126 - To reduce the chances of election fraud
HB 5129 - To ban the unsolicited distribution of absentee applications by third parties and election officials.
HB 5138 - Relating to federal involvement in elections
HB 5168 - Providing for the election of county school superintendents to four year terms.
HB 5173 - Relating to the election rather than appointment of members of the Parks and Recreation Commission of a county with a population greater than one hundred and fifty thousand.
HB 5247 - Providing for election reform and protections
HB 5282 - To prohibit rank choice voting
HB 5288 - Relating to the time and place of holding primary elections
HB 5298 - Relating to prohibiting a candidate who failed to secure the nomination of a political party in a primary election from seeking the same elected office as an affiliate with a different political party in the subsequent general election
HB 5341 - Relating to contested election procedure.
HB 5362 - Clarifying conditions and circumstances where protections are warranted for those performing their duties as expected during the process of election operations, whether those workers are salaried, non-salaried or contracted
HB 5366 - To ensure hand-counted, paper ballots for all WV elections
HB 5373 - Relating to changing political parties less than one year prior to being appointed to political office.
HB 5383 - To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election
HB 5384 - To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections
HB 5440 - Relating to county commission vacancies
HB 5486 - To establish the County Home Rule Program as a permanent program.
HB 5503 - "Resign to Run” law
HB 5523 - Authorizing cancellation of voter registration records for individuals who are no longer West Virginia citizens and have obtained a driver’s license in another state
HB 5610 - Requiring candidates for sheriff and prosecutor to disclose criminal history when filing for office
HB 5623 - Relating to absentee voting
HB 5633 - Requiring a person to be a member of a respective political party 12 months before they can run for office in that party
Energy (9 Bills)
HB 4632 - Relating to the Energy Storage Procurement Act
HB 4712 - Relating generally to coal fired energy plants and wind power
HB 4784 - Establish setback from residential properties for new windmills being constructed throughout the state.
HB 4904 - Relating to power generating plant sites
HB 5094 - Releating to Pollution Control Facilities Tax treatment and Wind Power Projects
HB 5150 - Establishing a nuclear reactor pilot program
HB 5268 - Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells
HB 5422 - Relating to commercial net metering standards
HB 5528 - Relating to the renewable energy facilities program
Environment (22 Bills)
HB 4247 - Prohibiting certain devices which enhance a diesel-powered vehicle’s capacity to emit soot
HB 4656 - Relating to microreactor development
HB 4752 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 4800 - To require the Department of Environmental Protection to assume responsibility of cost and permitting of dams that are deemed to be under state control
HB 4906 - Relating to Well Location Restrictions
HB 4968 - Relating to making West Virginia an agreement state with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and transferring authority and responsibility for sources of radiation from other state agencies to the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 4974 - To create the Save our Farmland and Protect our National Security Act
HB 5006 - Relating to the administration of the A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan
HB 5018 - To provide for oversight and authority governing community air monitoring programs.
HB 5045 - Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage
HB 5047 - Amending surface mining reclamation requirements
HB 5074 - Relating to requiring disclosure of the lawful activity that is the basis of a permit application with the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 5076 - Relating to Well Plugging Authority
HB 5085 - To provide a tax credit for businesses who utilize recycling programs or recycling facilities
HB 5090 - Allowing increased civil administrative penalties to be promulgated by legislative rules of by the Department of Environmental Protection
HB 5268 - Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells
HB 5321 - Relating to requiring local governments to provide matching funds for grants from the Reclamation of Abandoned and Dilapidated Properties Program
HB 5334 - Homestead Water Self-Sufficiency Act
HB 5351 - To amend the definition of commercial solid waste facility
HB 5414 - Orphan Oil and Gas Well Prevention Act of 2024
HB 5416 - Relating to allowing the use of degraded properties as an approved location to place solar panels utilized by power generating units
HB 5624 - Relating to Surface Use Notice
Estates and Trusts (4 Bills)
HB 4596 - Relating to the intestate share of a decedent’s surviving spouse
HB 5561 - Relating to permitting the electronic execution of trusts.
HB 5562 - Relating to the repeal of the common law rule against perpetuities by extending it to 1,000 years for all trusts.
HB 5676 - Relating to changing the maximum amount a County Clerk can charge to settle an estate and removing reference to Fiduciary Commissioner
Ethics (2 Bills)
HB 4492 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 4957 - Relating generally to lobbying rules
Finance and Administration (45 Bills)
HB 4232 - To make the HOPE Scholarship applicable to all children
HB 4292 - Providing for enhanced damages for non-payment of royalties due from oil, natural gas, or natural gas liquids production
HB 4342 - Make gold and silver legal tender in WV
HB 4364 - Relating to the limitations on the financial relationships with foreign entities that have values antithetical to those of the State of West Virginia
HB 4385 - Require all public contracts be publicly advertised
HB 4462 - Relating to the transfer of certain revenues derived from lottery activities generally, restoring distribution to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund to 2013 rates and decreasing the funds available for grants therefrom
HB 4487 - Allowing one free day for WV resident’s to obtain new for-profit business license
HB 4578 - Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination Act
HB 4623 - Relating to the General Revenue Fund
HB 4717 - Relating to terminating the authority of the Director of the Purchasing Division to impose a certain annual fee upon vendors
HB 4811 - Small Business Investment Grant Fund
HB 4827 - Remove variable rate on gas tax
HB 4855 - Require Division of Purchasing to write contracts in an unbiased manner
HB 4985 - Relating to Securities Restitution Assistance Fund
HB 4996 - Relating to government procurement of electric vehicles
HB 5079 - Relating generally to the funds for patients of in state 28 day addiction clinics who do not complete the 28 day program.
HB 5097 - Eliminate Daylight Savings Time in WV
HB 5121 - Terminating the Purchasing Division
HB 5128 - Directing transfer of moneys into fire protection funds at the end of each year
HB 5147 - To quantify fair workman compensation rates and more equitable method of tracking/billing for various classifications within volunteer fire departments and emergency rescue personnel
HB 5148 - Reducing cost for Volunteer Fire and EMS supplies
HB 5161 - To create a “digital wallet” to keep all certifications/licensure accrued by the person in one place
HB 5177 - Relating generally to required/mandated state audits for Volunteer Fire Deparments
HB 5194 - Requiring purchases of certain commodities and services from state use program partners
HB 5203 - Relating generally to annual funding from the WV State Budget for Volunteer Fire Department and EMS
HB 5204 - Developing a program for equitable reimbursement rate for EMS transports and treatment in place
HB 5217 - Recognizing United States currency as legal tender for all transacations private and public.
HB 5240 - Eliminate woke, anti-women words from state government
HB 5332 - Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public
HB 5354 - Relating to the Grant Transparency and Accountability Act
HB 5419 - Relating to the licensure and regulation of mortgage brokers, lenders, and loan originators
HB 5420 - Modifying bid thresholds for public works projects
HB 5432 - To move the essential functions of the Information Services and Communications Division into the Office of Technology.
HB 5594 - Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions.
HB 5596 - Exempt Division of Natural Resources from purchasing requirements
HB 5602 - Requiring Governor’s consent to accept certain grants
HB 5603 - Relating to creating the West Virginia Infrastructure Deployment Clearinghouse
HB 5604 - Relating to procurement by state spending units
HB 5616 - Prohibiting contracts, affiliations or employment of entities that support actions counter the the US Constitution and West Virginia Constitution
HB 5629 - Relating to the use of American materials
HB 5638 - Recognizing Juneteenth Day as an official state holiday
HB 5639 - Prompt Payment Act of 2024
HB 5656 - Relating to protecting and advancing the substantial public policies of this state
HB 5664 - To automatically start a Smart 529 account for every newborn in West Virginia.
HB 5667 - Protecting sports fans who participate in real-money fantasy sports, skill-based contests to ensure that operators of these contests meet appropriate compliance and financial standards in order to be suitable for licensure and operation within the state.
Governmental Agencies (1 Bills)
HB 4492 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
Governor -- Bills Requested By (57 Bills)
HB 4025 - Budget Bill
HB 4760 - Establishing salaries for the Secretaries of the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Health Facilities
HB 4878 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in West Virginia Personal Income Tax Act
HB 4879 - Providing for a child and dependent care credit against the personal income tax
HB 4880 - Relating to personal income tax social security exemption
HB 4881 - Relating to bringing terms not defined in that act into conformity with the meaning of those terms for federal income tax purposes
HB 4882 - Extending in-state tuition rates to all members and veterans of the National Guard, reserves, and armed forces as well as their spouses and dependents
HB 4883 - Relating to increasing annual salaries of certain employees of the state
HB 5205 - Increasing the amount of the senior citizens' tax credit for property tax paid
HB 5245 - Supplementing, amending, and increasing existing items of appropriation from the State Road Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Highways
HB 5447 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the State Board of Education, School Building Authority
HB 5448 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the West Virginia Economic Development Authority
HB 5449 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Health Facilities, William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital and Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital
HB 5450 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Fairmont State University
HB 5451 - Expiring funds to the General Revenue Surplus from Personal Income Tax Reserve Fund
HB 5452 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services
HB 5453 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Division of Health, Central Office
HB 5454 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Division of Environmental Protection
HB 5455 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the School Building Authority
HB 5456 - Expiring funds from the Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to the General Revenue
HB 5457 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Division of Human Services
HB 5458 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Higher Education Policy Commission, administration, control account
HB 5459 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Executive, Governor’s Office
HB 5460 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry and Geological Economic Survey
HB 5461 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Veterans' Assistance
HB 5462 - Supplementing and amending the approriations to the Division of Culture and History
HB 5463 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the State Department of Education
HB 5464 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Economic Development, Office of the Secretary
HB 5465 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary
HB 5466 - Supplementing and amending the appropriation to the Department of Administration, Division of Finance
HB 5467 - Supplementing and amending approriations to the Civil Contingent Fund
HB 5468 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to Adjutant General
HB 5469 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Higher Education Policy Commission, Administration, Control Account
HB 5470 - Expiring funds from Lottery Net Profits to General Revenue Surplus
HB 5471 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Division of Administrative Services, Criminal Justice Fund
HB 5472 - Supplementing and amending appropriations to the West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals
HB 5473 - Supplementing and appropriating appropriations to the State Board of Education - Aid for Exceptional Children
HB 5474 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Hospital Finance Authority
HB 5475 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the School Building Authority – School Construction Fund
HB 5476 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Health – Consolidated Medical Service Fund
HB 5477 - Making supplemental appropriations to the Division of Natural Resources
HB 5478 - Making supplemental appropriations of federal funds to the Division of Human Services
HB 5479 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Human Services
HB 5480 - Making a supplental appropration to the Division of Human Services - Child Support Enforcement Fund
HB 5492 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Emergency Management
HB 5493 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the West Virginia State Police
HB 5494 - Making supplemental appropriations to the Public Service Commission
HB 5495 - Making a supplemental appropriation to Division of Health – Laboratory Services Fund
HB 5496 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture - Agriculture Fees Fund
HB 5497 - Making supplemental appropriations to the Public Service Commission
HB 5498 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture - West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund
HB 5499 - Making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Arts, Culture and History - National Coal Heritage Area Authority
HB 5500 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the State Board of Education – Aid for Exceptional Children
HB 5501 - Making a supplemental appropriation of federal funds to the Department of Agriculture
HB 5590 - Changing reference to the “Curator” of the Department of Arts, Culture, and History to the “Secretary” of the Department
HB 5692 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Veterans‘ Assistance, Veterans’ Facilities
HB 5693 - Making a supplementary appropriation of federal funds to the Department of Commerce, Geological and Economic Survey
Health (203 Bills)
HB 4002 - Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income
HB 4005 - To legalize the use of edibles when a patient is prescribed medical marijuana
HB 4011 - To modify exemptions from criminal liability to include a distinction for biological lessons regarding reproduction.
HB 4170 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 4178 - Relating to certification of a patient’s eligibility for medical cannabis
HB 4187 - Relating to tobacco usage restrictions
HB 4192 - Allow for religious exemptions for getting vaccinations
HB 4193 - Establishing the Minority Health Advisory Team
HB 4215 - To ensure that hospitals do not provide lesser treatment to unvaccinated individuals as opposed to vaccinated individuals
HB 4218 - Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis
HB 4219 - Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollment
HB 4233 - Non-binary not permitted on birth certificates
HB 4237 - Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
HB 4238 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 4243 - Mountaineer Games Sports League
HB 4274 - Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources
HB 4277 - To modify parenting if father encouraged an abortion
HB 4283 - Creating WV Black Lung Program
HB 4293 - Relating to prohibiting mask mandates
HB 4295 - Requiring a pharmacist to fill a prescription for individuals who have a valid prescription unless belief that prescription is fraudulent
HB 4313 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 4314 - Establishing privacy regarding medical treatments
HB 4319 - Authorizing possession and smoking of medical cannabis by approved persons
HB 4320 - Relating to access for minor children’s medical records
HB 4324 - Permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order
HB 4328 - Require an ultrasound prior to abortion
HB 4340 - Create a division of forensic social work services in DHHR
HB 4348 - Relating to natural immunity or antibodies to any illness to be treated as equal or better to vaccine induced immunity
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.
HB 4357 - To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care
HB 4376 - Relating to surgical smoke evacuation
HB 4382 - Relating to an involuntary commitment pilot program
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4401 - Require that all injuries and side effects from vaccines be reported by medical professional to the Bureau for Public Health
HB 4403 - Providing options to vaccinations and mask requirements as a condition to entry of schools
HB 4405 - Mental Hygiene Reform Act
HB 4408 - To allow the development of a specialized intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
HB 4413 - Relating to updating the minimum standards for nursing homes
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
HB 4425 - Require separate proof licensure for every recovery residence owned or operated by an individual or entity in West Virginia
HB 4429 - Relating to excluding test strips from the definition of drug paraphernalia
HB 4431 - Permitting the cremation of unidentified remains.
HB 4432 - Relating to midlevel practitioners
HB 4433 - Relating to exempting the acquisition and utilization of a mobile facility which performs mammography or low density computerized tomography.
HB 4438 - Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate
HB 4449 - Increase age to 21 for tobacco and vape sales to align with federal law
HB 4454 - Prohibiting mask mandates by the State of West Virginia
HB 4464 - Life at Conception Act of 2024
HB 4479 - To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patients
HB 4484 - The Genealogical Record Integrity Act of 2023
HB 4489 - Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Benefits Act
HB 4511 - Relating to living anatomical gift
HB 4515 - State Living Donor Protection Act
HB 4526 - Establish a memorial at the Capitol for the unborn whose lives were lost.
HB 4532 - Relating to health insurance for living organ donors
HB 4544 - Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products
HB 4551 - To allow cigar bars
HB 4563 - Prohibit state funding for any organization that performs abortions
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
HB 4583 - Prevent healthcare facilities from limiting the number of parents that are able to attend appointments for their children
HB 4585 - Get rid of vaccine requirement for families who want to provide respite care
HB 4587 - To create a crime to send someone abortion pills through the U.S. mail
HB 4588 - Stop practice of medicine by telehealth for abortion prescriptions
HB 4590 - To allow for modification of a family court order involving drugs in certain circumstances
HB 4592 - Relating to a state-funded psychiatric residency program
HB 4594 - Relating to extending managed care.
HB 4595 - Relating to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability
HB 4613 - Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Insurance Coverage Protection Act
HB 4620 - Removing the expiration date from the food handler card
HB 4622 - Relating to medical marijuana
HB 4647 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 4667 - Prohibiting syringe services programs from distributing listed smoking devices
HB 4669 - Relating to controlled substance monitoring; and removing a dispensing prohibition
HB 4677 - Relating to the reimbursement of sexual assault forensic medical examinations
HB 4679 - Youth Mental Health Protection Act
HB 4683 - Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement
HB 4684 - Relating generally to mental health treatment
HB 4714 - Add licensure requirement on substance use disorder inpatient provider facilities
HB 4715 - Develop a licensure process for recovery residences or other residential settings that present as a location where substance use disorder recovery can be facilitated
HB 4716 - Require Substance Use Disorder inpatient providers to offer patients transportation to certain places upon discharge
HB 4732 - To remove the state requirement for EMT’S to be nationally certified.
HB 4740 - To provide safe harbor peer review for nurses
HB 4743 - Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician
HB 4747 - Removing marijuana as a tested substance from the screening requirements
HB 4750 - Relating to removing the Certificate of Need moratorium on opioid treatment facilities
HB 4751 - Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider
HB 4756 - Creating a state Alzheimer’s plan task force
HB 4757 - Relating to the organization of the Office of the Inspector General
HB 4778 - Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association
HB 4783 - Relating to the practice of optometry
HB 4795 - Relating to permitting an academic medical center to operate an opioid treatment facility.
HB 4797 - Relating to reimbursement for child-care based upon enrollment
HB 4798 - Informing caretaker of his or her rights at the initial point of contact during a child protective investigation
HB 4817 - Relating to updating the practice of nursing
HB 4818 - Cap the number of MAT facilities to 20 overall, with a limit of one per county
HB 4856 - To limit the number of vape stores and head shops to one for every 15,000 residents per county
HB 4857 - Banning Medicaid and CHIP from paying for child and adult transgender surgeries
HB 4866 - Prohibit needle exchanges from providing services in West Virginia
HB 4873 - Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption
HB 4874 - Relating to fatality and mortality review team
HB 4884 - Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection
HB 4892 - Relating to the distribution of drugs to safety net providers and contract pharmacies
HB 4897 - Relating to changing circumstances for when a child may be removed from a foster home.
HB 4900 - To create the Core State Behavioral Health Crisis Services System
HB 4908 - Relating to permitting the state agencies to contract with the West Virginia public health Institute
HB 4911 - Relating to the sale of raw milk
HB 4914 - Establish Food Waste Task Force
HB 4922 - Establish cause of action upon violation of prohibition of providing gender reassignment or gender altering medication to minor
HB 4928 - Remove licensure requirements for certain radon specialists
HB 4929 - To update the requirements of the state director of health to quarantine and enforce regulations in a specific place
HB 4936 - Men’s Equality Act
HB 4937 - Relating to notification of breast density
HB 4951 - To facilitate the interstate practice of School Psychology in educational or school settings
HB 4953 - Relating to medical professional liability
HB 4956 - Creating the Oral Health and Cancer Rights Act
HB 4975 - Relating to establishing a foster parent information system
HB 4977 - Requiring that if baby changing stations are installed by an establishment that these be put in both male and female restrooms
HB 4979 - To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity
HB 4983 - To fund the Tobacco Use Cessation Initiative.
HB 4997 - Relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
HB 5002 - To require at least 1 baby changing station to existing and future rest areas in this state for both male and female restrooms
HB 5017 - Relating to mobile food establishment reciprocity.
HB 5021 - Relating to cardiac response plans
HB 5022 - Relating to increasing the amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine a person may purchase annually.
HB 5032 - Require hospitals under Certificate of Need to accept PEIA
HB 5036 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 5041 - Relating to life at conception
HB 5054 - Relating to the licensure of birthing centers
HB 5061 - To create the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Council
HB 5062 - Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate
HB 5063 - Modifying the time to terminate a foster care arrangement
HB 5067 - To remove the 2 year timeframe for medical malpractice suits to be filed ONLY for individuals who were minors when they had their procedures performed
HB 5073 - Relating to the Women’s Right to Know Act
HB 5079 - Relating generally to the funds for patients of in state 28 day addiction clinics who do not complete the 28 day program.
HB 5084 - Require retailers to verify identification and age upon purchase of vape products
HB 5103 - Relating to payment for EMS treatment without transport
HB 5106 - Permitting religious exemptions for compulsory immunizations
HB 5107 - Relating to compulsory immunizations
HB 5110 - Genetic Information Privacy Act
HB 5120 - Relating to medical records
HB 5141 - Universities must accept religious, medical, or right of conscience exemptions to taking vaccinations
HB 5143 - Allowing for Religious Exemptions of Vaccine Requirements in Primary and Secondary Schools
HB 5145 - Removing Hepatitis B from the list of required vaccinations
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
HB 5154 - Removing liability for mental health professionals providing services in mental hygiene cases involving possible involuntary hospitalization
HB 5155 - Require recovery residences to be certified if they receive renumeration from the state
HB 5160 - Prohibiting expanding drug and alcohol treatment facilities and services in certain counties
HB 5163 - Relating to involuntary hold by law enforcement for a person determined to be an imminent danger
HB 5166 - Relating to the distribution of drugs
HB 5187 - Remove hormone blockers from transgender code
HB 5192 - Relating to requiring the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate rules
HB 5209 - Relating to requiring the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification to inspect office-based medication-assisted treatment programs at least every 24 months.
HB 5210 - Relating to voluntary private school immunization
HB 5211 - Relating to vaccination and mask requirements
HB 5229 - To require a new written, phoned, or e-mail prescription order within 72 hours of a prescription change
HB 5230 - To provide a means to classify when medications should be continued or stopped for patients
HB 5233 - Requiring the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to post all meeting notices per Open Meetings Act on their website
HB 5239 - Require all recovery residences to be registered with the state
HB 5241 - Requiring the West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner to audit certain PEIA claims
HB 5248 - Relating to the regulation of behavioral health centers
HB 5253 - Relating to transition the Medicaid long-term care program to a managed care system.
HB 5254 - Relating generally to the creation of mental hygiene regions by the Supreme Court of Appeals
HB 5260 - To require all prescribers of medication to include their purpose for prescribing the medication to the patient
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.
HB 5277 - Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices
HB 5281 - Creating Persons with Disabilities Registry
HB 5284 - Removing Personal care from the Certificate of Need requirements.
HB 5286 - Eliminating the ability to sub-contract under Certificate of Need
HB 5301 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5303 - Relating to exempting a neighborhood hospital from certificate of need
HB 5310 - Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act
HB 5330 - Require DHHR-CPS to notify the county school superintendent & local BOE president (of the public school system where the child attends) of pending CPS investigations.
HB 5335 - Relating to compulsory immunizations
HB 5336 - To require parental notification of certain immunization-related items by public school districts any time school-related immunization notifications or letters are sent to parents
HB 5340 - Relating to requiring insurance coverage for a nonopioid drug for the treatment of pain for patients with substance use disorder.
HB 5356 - Prohibiting registered sex offenders from utilizing school-based health centers
HB 5361 - Relating to allowing influenza immunizations to be offered to hospital patients
HB 5391 - Creating the False Claims Act
HB 5408 - Relating to the delivery sales of tobacco
HB 5481 - Relating generally to liability of hospital police
HB 5491 - Relating to Certified Professional Midwife
HB 5511 - Relating generally to medical cannabis
HB 5521 - Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products
HB 5524 - Regulating and restricting the shipment and receipt of abortion-inducing drugs and paraphernalia
HB 5530 - Relating to requiring a hospital to disclose price and fee information for certain health care services
HB 5543 - Relating to petition for involuntary treament for drug and alcohol abuse
HB 5552 - Requiring medical professionals to report injuries and side effects from vaccines to Bureau for Public Health
HB 5556 - Comprehensive Services Act
HB 5557 - Relating to Medicaid Waiver Package
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.
HB 5564 - Providing that small format, micro hospitals are exempt from certificate of need review
HB 5570 - Relating to Cancer Prevention Programs for Firefighters
HB 5620 - Relating to authorizing the installation of monitors in long-term care facilities
HB 5622 - Relating to gender change in government documents
HB 5642 - Relating to expanding the employment and training requirements necessary to receive SNAP benefits
HB 5661 - To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students
HB 5665 - Relating to regulating billboards displaying messages about the availability of abortions in states bordering West Virginia
HB 5682 - Creating the Prescription Drug Affordability Board
HB 5683 - Relating to a Medicaid state plan amendment
HB 5684 - Mandating all Medicaid services in West Virginia be delivered in West Virginia
HB 5685 - Relating to Medicaid Cost Containment
HB 5686 - Modifications to the Medical Services Fund Advisory Council
HB 5688 - Relating to accreditied academic hospitals
Human Rights (23 Bills)
HB 4022 - Employer discriminatory practices
HB 4194 - Adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act and WV Fair Housing Act
HB 4231 - Creating the Keep Roe Reversed Forever Act
HB 4254 - To create a bill to designate February 3 as “Freedom Day,” to memorialize the February 3, 1865 Act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia.
HB 4256 - Increasing the state minimum wage
HB 4313 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 4325 - Places of worship may not be shut down by state of emergency
HB 4464 - Life at Conception Act of 2024
HB 4543 - Relating to statute of limitations for discrimination
HB 4559 - Right to travel bill
HB 4743 - Relating to a patient’s right to choose physician
HB 4982 - Relating to sex crimes and marriage
HB 5036 - Creating the Parents' Bill of Rights
HB 5099 - Relating to prohibitions on contracting with companies that boycott Israel
HB 5100 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act
HB 5142 - Allow Religious Exemptions for vaccines
HB 5243 - Relating to Women’s Bill of Rights
HB 5271 - Relating to Privacy of Social Care information
HB 5327 - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act
HB 5357 - Relating to open captioning for motion pictures
HB 5378 - Prohibiting discrimination on the basis of hairstyle or texture
HB 5396 - Relating to the Second Amendment Freedom and Enforcement (SAFE) Act
HB 5512 - To Protect Newborn Genetic Privacy Rights
Human Services (28 Bills)
HB 4170 - Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs
HB 4182 - Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools
HB 4184 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 4227 - Require photo identification on all EBT cards
HB 4235 - Creating the Fair Chance Act
HB 4238 - Screening for adverse childhood experiences
HB 4253 - Creating a litigation practice license for social workers
HB 4375 - Provide programs to educate senior citizens
HB 4425 - Require separate proof licensure for every recovery residence owned or operated by an individual or entity in West Virginia
HB 4488 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 4490 - Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration
HB 4509 - Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services
HB 4607 - Relating to eligibility verification for applicants for public assistance
HB 4635 - Create Intergenerational Poverty Task Force
HB 4647 - Permitting certain felons to work in licensed behavioral health facilities
HB 4746 - Providing for the reintegration of inmates in correctional facilities
HB 4749 - Relating to wages of persons with disabilities
HB 5028 - Requiring that final orders be prepared and signed within ten (days) of the disposition hearing.
HB 5136 - Creating the Supported Decision-Making Act
HB 5256 - Relating to child care staffing ratios at child care facilities for child care providers
HB 5258 - Incentivizing the Sale of Healthy, Local Produce
HB 5293 - 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.
HB 5299 - The Closed Captioning Act
HB 5375 - Work Protection Act
HB 5506 - Creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership
HB 5529 - Relating to foster care support services
HB 5536 - Relating to the assessment of interest on overpayments by the Bureau for Medical Services
HB 5546 - Relating to eligibility verification for applicants for public assistance
Insurance (40 Bills)
HB 4024 - Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies
HB 4174 - Prohibit the practice of white bagging
HB 4183 - Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures
HB 4184 - Requiring the Public Employees Agency and other health insurance providers to provide mental health parity
HB 4374 - Better protect citizens in the event of a car accident with an uninsured motorist
HB 4448 - Permitting former members of the Legislature to remain eligible for insurance plans at full cost to the member and at no cost to the state
HB 4494 - To allow teachers can bank sick leave for years of service and/or insurance payments.
HB 4617 - Relating to insurance coverage for breast cancer screening
HB 4644 - Prohibiting use of a person’s credit history in certain insurance transactions
HB 4753 - Relating to providing health insurance coverage concerning biomarker testing
HB 4786 - Delivery Network Company (DNC) Insurance Model Act
HB 4823 - Public Adjuster Professional Standards Reform Act
HB 4831 - Relating to Catalytic Converters
HB 4857 - Banning Medicaid and CHIP from paying for child and adult transgender surgeries
HB 4931 - Relating to Insurance carrier Requirement for Health Coverage Plans
HB 4933 - Relating to Medicaid dental coverage
HB 4950 - Requiring all insurance companies doing business in the state to be required to notify policy holder of changes
HB 4997 - Relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
HB 5032 - Require hospitals under Certificate of Need to accept PEIA
HB 5057 - To raise the threshold for nominal referral fees from $25 to $100.
HB 5082 - Exempt those with 25 years holding an insurance license from attaining additional CEUs
HB 5104 - Increasing mandatory insurance coverage limits for proof of financial responsibility
HB 5183 - Insurance must cover Bioidentical hormones as they do pharmaceutical one
HB 5190 - Insurance must cover physical, speech and occupational therapy once children are school age
HB 5218 - Relating to placing a cap on insurance copays
HB 5241 - Requiring the West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner to audit certain PEIA claims
HB 5310 - Remote Patient Outcome Improvement Act
HB 5328 - Relating to expanding certain insurance coverages for pregnant women
HB 5399 - To modify the state auditing practices of the volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments
HB 5417 - To provide for transparency of the expenditure of dental health care plan premiums
HB 5505 - Relating to expanding certain insurance coverages for pregnant women
HB 5541 - Increase to minimum of $2000 as the amount recoverable by fire companies from homeowners insurnace policies for response to fire call
HB 5577 - Increasing required medical coverage for autism spectrum disorders
HB 5580 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
HB 5593 - Relating to the creation, composition, qualifications, and compensation of the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management
HB 5618 - Relating to cost sharing for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations
HB 5643 - Relating to actions for damages or attorney’s fees in cases involving Board of Risk Management and Insurance
HB 5670 - Relating to, except emergency medical treatment, requiring a parent who has been allocated custodial responsibility to provide the other parent with notice prior to medical expenses being incurred
HB 5681 - Prohibit insurance rates in WV from being based upon Credit scores.
HB 5682 - Creating the Prescription Drug Affordability Board
Juveniles (27 Bills)
HB 4180 - Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee
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.
HB 4211 - Relating to custodial interrogation of a child
HB 4451 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human resources to pay the attorney fees of an adoptive parent in a subsidized adoption
HB 4526 - Establish a memorial at the Capitol for the unborn whose lives were lost.
HB 4560 - Relating to family courts and juvenile petitions
HB 4718 - Providing online privacy protection laws for children under 18 years of age
HB 4781 - To fund repairs and renovations for the West Virginia Children’s Home in Randolph County.
HB 4867 - Require pornography websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content
HB 4898 - Relating to foster or adoption parents sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender idenity
HB 5003 - To amend the section of child marriage under 18
HB 5026 - Establishing process for adoptions resulting from juveline abuse and neglect proceedings
HB 5053 - Creating a statutory right to petition circuit and family courts for sibling visitation
HB 5065 - Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
HB 5181 - Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits.
HB 5226 - Child Social Media Protection Bill
HB 5266 - Relating to false abuse/neglect referrals in child abuse cases
HB 5398 - To require drug testing of foster parents prior to child placement.
HB 5409 - Relating to loss of parental rights after a third petition for a child’s removal
HB 5515 - Establishing pilot program for Public Guardian Ad Litem Services
HB 5520 - Relating to juvenile competency
HB 5532 - Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms
HB 5572 - Prohibiting cameras and recording devices in bedrooms and bathrooms of foster children
HB 5581 - Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
HB 5585 - Relating to support of child care in kinship/relative custody situations
HB 5609 - Relating to confidentiality of child care records and the Foster Care Ombudsman
HB 5664 - To automatically start a Smart 529 account for every newborn in West Virginia.
Labor (23 Bills)
HB 4023 - Relating to anti-discrimination protections for independent contractors
HB 4212 - Removing certain requirements from WV Jobs Act
HB 4229 - Ban the Box Act
HB 4256 - Increasing the state minimum wage
HB 4272 - Creating the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act
HB 4477 - Removing the requirement for contractors to file payroll information on public improvement construction projects
HB 4534 - Relating to the minimum wage
HB 4628 - Reinstate the Contractor Licensing Board under the Division of Labor
HB 4631 - Creating the Paid Parental Leave Pilot Program
HB 4681 - Repealing the West Virginia Jobs Act
HB 4689 - Removing and modifying certain requirements for employers relating to wages for construction of public improvements
HB 4747 - Removing marijuana as a tested substance from the screening requirements
HB 4759 - Relating to E-Verify, the federal employment authorization program
HB 4803 - Relating to the hiring requirements of West Virginia law enforcement employees
HB 4816 - Amending requirements for licensure relating to elevator mechanics, crane operators, HVAC, electricians, and plumbers
HB 5118 - To raise the hiring age for law enforcement officers to age 60.
HB 5133 - Eliminating the age requirement for hiring West Virginia law enforcement employees
HB 5159 - Relating generally to child labor.
HB 5375 - Work Protection Act
HB 5377 - Relating to peer support teams, peer support services, and privileged testimonial communications
HB 5426 - Protect Home-Based Work Act
HB 5427 - Promoting a Return to Work Act
HB 5580 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
Legal Gaming (5 Bills)
HB 4019 - Regulation of Sports Wagering
HB 4700 - Banning certain persons from sport wagering activities
HB 5128 - Directing transfer of moneys into fire protection funds at the end of each year
HB 5397 - Establish online charitable raffle
HB 5668 - Creating the Responsible Gaming and Research Act
Legislature (13 Bills)
HB 4317 - Creating the Legislative Infrastructure Commission
HB 4470 - Relating to drug testing of legislators
HB 4492 - Prohibiting chairmen of state political parties during or up to one year after the termination of their employment as chairmen of those political parties from registering as lobbyists
HB 4633 - Require Medicaid to submit all state plan amendments, waiver submissions and policy changes to the Legislature for rulemaking approval
HB 4648 - Creating the Independent Redistricting Commission of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance
HB 4835 - Increasing transparency in the apportionment process for congressional and legislative districts
HB 4844 - Relating generally to drug testing of state legislators.
HB 5309 - Legislative Transparency Reform Act
HB 5337 - Establishing the legislative oversight committee of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
HB 5372 - Relating to repeal of severability provisions
HB 5402 - To make it a felony for a third party to receive money from any organization or person for purposes of influencing any member of legislature
HB 5592 - Relating to Legislative Auditor’s scope of authority
HB 5595 - Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims
Legislature--Rule Making (143 Bills)
HB 4026 - Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles
HB 4027 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule relating to alternative emission limitations during startup and shutdown operations
HB 4028 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate rule relating to control of particulate matter air pollution from the combustion of fuel in indirect heat exchangers
HB 4029 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate rule relating to control of air pollution from operation of hot mix asphalt plants
HB 4030 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate rule relating to control of air pollution from the operation of coal preparation plants, coal handling operations and coal refuse disposal areas
HB 4031 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from combustion of refuse
HB 4032 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate rule relating to control of particulate matter air pollution from manufacturing processes and associated operations
HB 4033 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to ambient air quality standards
HB 4034 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from the emission of sulfur oxides
HB 4035 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards of performance for new stationary sources
HB 4036 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to control of air pollution from the emission of volatile organic compounds
HB 4037 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
HB 4038 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the control of greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired electric utility generating units
HB 4039 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to underground injection control
HB 4040 - Authorizing Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule relating to hazardous waste management system
HB 4041 - Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the administration of Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund and safe drinking water set-asides
HB 4042 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to public water systems operators
HB 4043 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to wastewater systems and operators
HB 4044 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure
HB 4045 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure
HB 4046 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences
HB 4047 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cross-connection control and backflow prevention
HB 4048 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for permits
HB 4049 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services
HB 4050 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries
HB 4051 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to newborn screening system
HB 4052 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to distribution of funds from emergency medical services salary enhancement fund
HB 4053 - Authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: registry and employment screening
HB 4054 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cooperative agreement approval and compliance
HB 4055 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certificate of need
HB 4056 - Authorizing the Department of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to collection and exchange of data related to overdoses
HB 4057 - Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to chronic pain management clinic licensure
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
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
HB 4060 - Authorizing the Family Protection Services Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to domestic violence program licensure standards
HB 4061 - Authorizing the West Virginia State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia State Police member grievance procedures
HB 4062 - Authorizing the West Virginia State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to motor vehicle inspections
HB 4063 - Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to law enforcement training and certification standards
HB 4064 - Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to protocol for law enforcement response to domestic violence
HB 4065 - Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sexual assault forensic examinations
HB 4066 - Authorizing the West Virginia Division of Emergency Management to promulgate a legislative rule relating to industrial accident rapid response rule
HB 4067 - Authorizing the State Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the fire code
HB 4068 - Authorizing the State Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification and evaluation of local fire departments
HB 4069 - Authorizing the State Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification of fire chiefs
HB 4070 - Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification of electrical inspectors
HB 4071 - Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to supervision of fire protection work
HB 4072 - Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to electrician licensing rules
HB 4073 - Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards for the certification and continuing education of municipal, county, and other public sector building code officials, building code inspectors and plans examiners
HB 4074 - Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certification of home inspectors
HB 4075 - Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to AIDS regulations
HB 4076 - Authorizing the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to bail bondsmen in criminal cases
HB 4077 - Authorizing the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to health benefit plan network access and adequacy
HB 4078 - Authorizing the West Virginia Racing Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to thoroughbred racing
HB 4079 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to aircraft operated under a fractional ownership program
HB 4080 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to income tax credits for property taxes paid
HB 4081 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to citizen tax credit for property taxes paid
HB 4082 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to income tax paid at the entity level by electing pass-through entities
HB 4083 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to administration of tax on purchases of wine and liquor inside and outside of municipalities
HB 4084 - Authorizing the West Virginia Tax Department to promulgate a legislative rule relating to privilege tax on sales of hemp-derived cannabinoid and kratom products
HB 4085 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Economic Development to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the operation of motorsports complexes and events
HB 4086 - Authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Commerce to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4087 - Authorizing the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations - logger certification
HB 4088 - Authorizing the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to minimum wage, maximum hours, and overtime compensation
HB 4089 - Authorizing the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing of elevator mechanics, accessibility technicians, and limited technicians and registration of elevator mechanic apprentices
HB 4090 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to safety provisions for clearing crews
HB 4091 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to protective clothing and equipment
HB 4092 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to reporting requirements for independent contractors
HB 4093 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assessing health and safety violation penalties
HB 4094 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the application process for the West Virginia Innovative Mine Safety Technology Tax Credit Act
HB 4095 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to governing the program for the sharing of information between employers
HB 4096 - Authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to substance abuse screening, standards and procedures
HB 4097 - Authorizing the Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to operating diesel equipment in underground mines in West Virginia
HB 4098 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hunting, fishing and other outfitters and guides
HB 4099 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to commercial whitewater outfitters
HB 4100 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to revocation of hunting and fishing licenses
HB 4101 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Cabwaylingo State Forest Trail System two-year pilot project permitting ATVs and ORVs
HB 4102 - Authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lifetime hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses
HB 4103 - Authorizing the Public Energy Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rule to petition the Public Energy Authority for approval of decommissioning or deconstruction activities related to any coal, oil, or natural gas fueled power plant
HB 4104 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to motor vehicle titling
HB 4105 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to dealer licensing
HB 4106 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to promulgate a legislative rule relating to handicapped parking permits
HB 4107 - Authorizing the Division of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to construction and reconstruction of state roads
HB 4108 - Authorizing the Division of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to traffic and safety rules
HB 4109 - Authorizing the Multimodal Transportation Faculties to promulgate a legislative rule relating to valuation of used rolling stock and equipment
HB 4110 - Authorizing certain miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules
HB 4111 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Acupuncture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to applications for licensure to practice acupuncture
HB 4112 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to frozen desserts and imitation frozen desserts
HB 4113 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certified pesticide applicator
HB 4114 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing to pesticide businesses
HB 4115 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia molluscan shellfish
HB 4116 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to select plant-based derivative products
HB 4117 - Authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to agritourism
HB 4118 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedures, criteria, and curricula for examination and license of barbers, cosmetologists, nail technicians, aestheticians, and hair stylists
HB 4119 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the application for waiver of initial licensure fees for certain individuals
HB 4120 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to cosmetology apprenticeship
HB 4121 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing
HB 4122 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to marriage and family therapist licensing rule
HB 4123 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Denistry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to practioner requirements for accessing the West Virginia Controlled Sunstanaces Monitoring Program Database
HB 4124 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Licensed Dietitians to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure and renewal requirements
HB 4125 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Licensed Dietitians to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing professional education requirements
HB 4126 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Licensed Dietitians to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telehealth practice, requirements, and definitions
HB 4127 - Authorizing the State Election Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to corporate and membership organization political activity
HB 4128 - Authorizing the State Election Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to regulation of campaign finance
HB 4129 - Authorizing the State Election Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to application and approval process for Secretary of State expenditures from the County Assistance Voting Equipment Fund
HB 4130 - Authorizing the West Virginia Massage Therapy Licensure Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to general provisions
HB 4131 - Authorizing the West Virginia Massage Therapy Licensure Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to schedule of fees
HB 4132 - Authorizing the West Virginia Massage Therapy Licensure Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to establishment licensure
HB 4133 - Authorizing the West Virginia Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical imaging technologists
HB 4134 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants
HB 4135 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education for physicians and podiatric physicians
HB 4136 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to permitting and disciplinary procedures: educational permits for graduate medical interns, residents and fellows
HB 4137 - Authorizing the West Virginia Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home administrators
HB 4138 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Board of Optometry
HB 4139 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education
HB 4140 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to injectable pharmaceutical agents certificate
HB 4141 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to eyelid procedures
HB 4142 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing procedures for osteopathic physicians
HB 4143 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to osteopathic physician assistants
HB 4144 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure and practice of pharmacy
HB 4145 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education for licensure for pharmacists
HB 4146 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration of pharmacy technicians
HB 4147 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to immunizations administered by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians
HB 4148 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to centralized prescription processing
HB 4149 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to regulations governing pharmacy permits
HB 4150 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to substitution of biological pharmaceuticals
HB 4151 - Authorizing the Board of Professional Surveyors to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the examination and licensing of professional surveyors in West Virginia
HB 4152 - Authorizing the Board of Examiners of Psychologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to disciplinary and complaint procedures for psychologists
HB 4153 - Authorizing the Board of Examiners of Psychologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to contested case hearing procedure
HB 4154 - Authorizing the West Virginia Real Estate Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing real estate brokers, associate brokers, and salespersons and the conduct of brokerage business
HB 4155 - Authorizing the West Virginia Real Estate Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to schedule of fees
HB 4156 - Authorizing the West Virginia Real Estate Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements for real estate courses, course providers, and instructors
HB 4157 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to policies, standards and criteria for the evaluation, approval and national nursing accreditation of prelicensure nursing education programs
HB 4158 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to requirements for registration and licensure and conduct constituting professional misconduct
HB 4159 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to advanced practice registered nurse licensure requirements
HB 4160 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to fees for services rendered by the board
HB 4161 - Authorizing the West Virginia Board of Respiratory Care to promulgate a legislative rule relating to student temporary permits
HB 4162 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to guidelines for the use of nicknames and other designations on the ballot
HB 4163 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Combined Voter Registration and Driver Licensing Fund
HB 4164 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to minimum standards for election administration, infrastructure, and security
HB 4165 - Authorizing the West Virginia State Treasurer to promulgate a legislative rule relating to enforcement of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act
HB 4166 - Authorizing the West Virginia State Treasurer to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Jumpstart Savings Program
HB 4550 - Eliminating the requirement that the apprenticeship training tax credit base be limited to wages paid to apprentices in the construction trades
HB 5090 - Allowing increased civil administrative penalties to be promulgated by legislative rules of by the Department of Environmental Protection
Local and Special Laws (1 Bills)
HB 4404 - Any judgment by a mayor, any individual exercising the mayor’s functions, the police court judge, or municipal judge of city be obligated to the Model Rules of Judicial Conduct.
Magistrates (4 Bills)
HB 4498 - To permit retired magistrates to have the ability to carry concealed weapons without paying fee
HB 4589 - Allow magistrate assistants to assess fines on basic charges
HB 4858 - Requiring annual report to the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary regarding statements of charges brought against a judge of this state
HB 5487 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
Military and Veterans (13 Bills)
HB 4225 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 4702 - Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places
HB 4703 - Relating to vehicles exempt from payment of registration fees for certain veterans
HB 4720 - Tuition and fee exemptions for service-connected Disabled Veterans and their dependents.
HB 4726 - Creating a liaison program with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs Transition Assistance Program
HB 4731 - Provide that first $5000 per year earned on Military Duty, Active, National Guard, or Reserves be exempt from the WV State Income Tax.
HB 4890 - To eliminate additional fee from the WVDMV for honorably discharged veterans for “Veteran” vehicle registration plate
HB 5224 - Exempting honorably discharged Veterans from “Hunter Safety Course” requirement for WV Hunting License
HB 5278 - Defend the Guard Act
HB 5381 - Creating a poster providing contact information and resource information on veteran benefits and services
HB 5525 - To revise and update all provisions of state code to relating to the West Virginia State Guard
HB 5579 - Establishing program to pay monthly allotment to certain veterans
HB 5641 - Relating to the electrical needs of the premises of the United States Armed Forces or the West Virginia National Guard
Motor Vehicles (67 Bills)
HB 4014 - Create license plate for autism awareness
HB 4201 - To provide for the creation of an “EV Manufacturers Investment Credit.”
HB 4221 - To eliminate the process of vehicle inspection in West Virginia
HB 4225 - Award military veterans with a “Veterans” license plate
HB 4228 - Placing notation on driver’s license or ID cards regarding certain cognitive disabilities
HB 4230 - Electric charging stations at state parks must charge market rates
HB 4260 - To amend the laws relating to overtaking and passing school buses in West Virginia
HB 4265 - Relating to increasing the services the sheriff may charge
HB 4296 - Relating to the Waiving of Certain DMV Fees for Volunteer Firefighters
HB 4309 - Provide volunteer firemen free license plates and vehicle registration
HB 4315 - Providing DMV with certain medical information related to mental or physical disabilities as it relates to the ability of a person to drive safely
HB 4378 - Authorizing the DMV to issue certain vital records in the custody of the state registrar
HB 4434 - Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source
HB 4456 - To remove the helmet law in West Virginia.
HB 4503 - To require a blood draw/blood test after a motor vehicle accident to determine impairment of those involved.
HB 4524 - Relating to Drivers License Address Requirements
HB 4616 - Relating to an occupational limited license
HB 4670 - To include electric-powered school busses in the county foundation allowance
HB 4685 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 4697 - Add protections for WV residents who reside out of state for certain time periods from non-renewal of licenses and registration
HB 4703 - Relating to vehicles exempt from payment of registration fees for certain veterans
HB 4727 - Requiring that a state employee with a commercial driver’s license have a current medical evaluation certification
HB 4764 - Provide one trip temporary vehicle permits to be purchased and printed online
HB 4771 - Repealing section of code authorizing additional registration fees for alternative fuel vehicles
HB 4813 - Relating to issuance of restricted license
HB 4848 - To establish the aggravated criminal offense of reckless driving resulting in death.
HB 4889 - Increasing penalty for undocumented parking in “Purple Heart Wounded” or “Veterans” paking spaces.
HB 4890 - To eliminate additional fee from the WVDMV for honorably discharged veterans for “Veteran” vehicle registration plate
HB 4907 - Repeal code relating to inspection of vehicles
HB 5019 - Relating to surrender and return of license not required for disqualifying or downgrading a driver’s license
HB 5020 - Relating to deferred adjudication and pre-trial diversions for first offense DUI cases
HB 5039 - Relating to authorizing the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles to enforce administrative penalties for the civil offense of refusing a secondary chemical test
HB 5042 - Repealing vehicle inspection sticker requirements in WV
HB 5064 - Relating to obtaining title to abandoned or junked motor vehicles abandoned on the property or place of business of an automobile dealer
HB 5066 - Prohibit e-bikes from being used for hunting
HB 5083 - Create mechanism for towing companies in WV to quickly access owner information.
HB 5092 - Ensuring certain amount of vehicle registration renewal fee be dedicated to Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System
HB 5104 - Increasing mandatory insurance coverage limits for proof of financial responsibility
HB 5108 - Providing authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days
HB 5178 - Requiring car dealerships in this state to utilize a search engine to determine if buyers of vehicles have valid motor vehicle insurance.
HB 5182 - Relating to receipts for payment of personal income taxes and the requirement thereof for annual renewal of vehicular registration
HB 5186 - Protecting gas powered vehicles from government bans
HB 5202 - Provide volunteer firemen free license plates and vehicle registration
HB 5207 - To create a special license plate for 100% disabled veterans
HB 5212 - Require new vehicle charging stations to be universal
HB 5213 - To allow Gold Star spouses to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use.
HB 5238 - Mandating that all courts provide adjudication for juvenile offenders for traffic violations to the Division of Motor Vehicles
HB 5259 - To promote the security of West Virginia motorists to account for increased costs of property damages, healthcare, and inflation.
HB 5287 - Relating generally to traffic safety
HB 5305 - Relating to impaired driving not eligible for deferred adjudication
HB 5317 - Making it permissive for commercial motor vehicles registered in this state to pass an annual inspection of all safety equipment to be consistent with the federal motor carrier safety regulations
HB 5371 - Relating to renewal of registration
HB 5385 - Relating generally to the modification of vehicle tires.
HB 5411 - Removing requirement to present a paid tax receipt to renew a license plate
HB 5482 - Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Organ Donor Act
HB 5485 - Relating to ensuring the $1 service fee for the renewal of vehicle registration is dedicated to the county sheriff for contribution to the county general fund and the deputy sheriff’s retirement system.
HB 5487 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
HB 5509 - Provide for a special driver’s license for those with physical disabilities
HB 5549 - Relating to allowing license plates to be obtained from alternative sources when the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is unable to produce them
HB 5565 - Relating to requiring the Division of Motor Vehicles to provide an identification card for eligible released inmates
HB 5576 - Authorizing municipal fire departments specialized license plates
HB 5583 - Permitting the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to issue a special permit to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicles or nondivisible load exceeding the maximum specified
HB 5611 - Allowing disabled purple heart recipients park free at municipal metered parking spaces
HB 5637 - Relating to special registration plates for military personnel
HB 5644 - Creating special military license plates and placards for 100 percent disabled veterans
HB 5672 - Establish a safety standoff area for damage electric vehicles placed at repair holding lots and/or salvage yards
HB 5680 - Relating to stricter enformecement for parking in a handicapped designated spot
Municipalities (39 Bills)
HB 4007 - Relating to allowing city attorney or municipal court clerks to file judgement liens
HB 4196 - Relating to municipal home rule appeals
HB 4209 - Providing that a municipal services user fee may not be imposed on employees of the state
HB 4249 - To clarify that municipal B and O taxes shall only apply to the owner of a contract, and not to subcontractors on a project
HB 4265 - Relating to increasing the services the sheriff may charge
HB 4291 - Local Energy Efficiency Partnership Act
HB 4407 - Limiting the imposition of municipal business and occupation taxes
HB 4517 - Municipalities may not assess a user fee when employee was not present in the municipality in the performance of his or her job
HB 4528 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 4600 - Repeal domestic animal tax
HB 4601 - Establishing the Municipal Home Rule Program
HB 4602 - Repeal municipal license and tax when state license required
HB 4626 - Repeal of authority granted to municipalities to levy business and occupation or privilege tax
HB 4636 - Prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements
HB 4688 - Relating to charging fees for municipal services
HB 4729 - Allow local governments to hold property owners more accountable for upkeep of buildings
HB 4782 - Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.
HB 4785 - To regulate outdoor advertisements, specifically gentleman’s clubs
HB 4790 - Split the jail bills among the cities, counties, and the state.
HB 4812 - Capping amount of moneys to third party vendors who collect business and occupation taxes on behalf of cities
HB 4849 - Allow the mayors to also serve as the chief of police
HB 4861 - Authorizing municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
HB 4864 - To prohibit municipalities from shutting off water service for the nonpayment of stormwater management fees.
HB 4870 - To create an influx into the courthouse improvement fund to allow counties to apply for grants to improve their courthouse facilities.
HB 4872 - Require counties and municipalities to provide public notice for land or building purchases
HB 4949 - To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county.
HB 4962 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4970 - Relating to Limitations upon local municipalities’ ability to retain revenue received from minor traffic violations
HB 5009 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
HB 5058 - Providing a process by which a city may hold an election to recall an ordinance
HB 5188 - Relating to awards and benefits for duty related disability in the municipal police officers and firefighters retirement system
HB 5295 - Authorizing a private outdoor designated area to simultaneously host multiple qualified permit holders
HB 5318 - Clarifying that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
HB 5406 - To fund the Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement Fund from the DMV in the form of a 50-cent payment from every registration sold/renewed in the state
HB 5420 - Modifying bid thresholds for public works projects
HB 5441 - Relating to raising the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
HB 5486 - To establish the County Home Rule Program as a permanent program.
HB 5487 - To require municipalities issuing tickets to charge the entire fee for tickets
HB 5534 - Relating to compensation for firefighters who are required to work holidays
Natural Resources (39 Bills)
HB 4213 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4230 - Electric charging stations at state parks must charge market rates
HB 4280 - Relating to tax credit for disabled veterans for lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing license
HB 4289 - To establish an auto-renewal licensing program that is eligible for discounts on licensing fees
HB 4321 - To create a new hunting license stamp for upland game bird
HB 4353 - To exempt daylight fluorescent outer garments from sales
HB 4411 - Standardize gas and oil contracts
HB 4415 - Expand the scope of hunting, fishing, and trapping benefits provided to former members of the United States Armed forces
HB 4504 - To expand recreational benefits to West Virginia Landowners to promote land ownership within the State, increase property value, bolster the State economy, and to provide additional benefits to West Virginia taxpayers
HB 4522 - Relating to rules for hunting antlered deer
HB 4535 - Provide valuation limitations to the Tax Commissioner for coal properties and to clarify the penalty for non-filers
HB 4555 - Providing valuation limitations for coal property taxation and clarifying the penalties for non-filers
HB 4570 - Relating to the beginning and expiration of hunting and fishing licenses
HB 4575 - Relating to warrantless entry of private lands
HB 4576 - Make first day of gun season for deer to Saturday before Thanksgiving holiday
HB 4652 - Natural Gas Electric Generation Development Act
HB 4692 - Relating generally to hunting and fishing
HB 4739 - To allow landowners to pay hunters to hunt their property
HB 4825 - Relating to the prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures.
HB 4871 - To allow youth and handicapped hunters to harvest a buck deer or doe during youth/handicapped special hunts
HB 4915 - Creating Adopt-A-Trail volunteer programs for public land under DNR jurisdiction
HB 4917 - To provide an optional pop up window to sign up for NRA or USCCA firearms safety classes when purchasing a hunting or fishing license online.
HB 4964 - Providing discounts for WV Residents and Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees for campgroup and golf fees
HB 4966 - Relating generally to sub surface well plugging
HB 4992 - To eliminate the restriction of hunting bears over bait
HB 5008 - Providing that hunting and fishing licenses expire a year from the date of issue rather than the end of the calendar year
HB 5033 - Allowing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources to stock “F1” fingerling bass, otherwise known as tiger bass, into West Virginia public lakes
HB 5048 - Removing cap on numbers of wells operators required to pay annual oversight fee
HB 5069 - Move marina gas tax proceeds to DNR Law enforcement division
HB 5076 - Relating to Well Plugging Authority
HB 5223 - To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program
HB 5224 - Exempting honorably discharged Veterans from “Hunter Safety Course” requirement for WV Hunting License
HB 5231 - Relating to use of leashed dogs for tracking mortally wounded deer, elk, turkey, wild boar or bear
HB 5234 - Relating to Free State Park passes, Hunting & Fishing Licenses for Veterans with PTSD diagnosis
HB 5331 - Relating to boating safety education certificate
HB 5350 - Expanding the definition “recreational purposes” to include mountain biking activities
HB 5376 - To extend hunting/fishing rights on private property, without a license, to grandchildren of the land owner
HB 5401 - To move Muzzle Loader deer season to one week prior to rifle deer season in November.
HB 5584 - To require bag limits to be set by biologists at the DNR and not the commission
Professions and Occupations (43 Bills)
HB 4204 - Relating to service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certifications
HB 4214 - Relating to hiring new West Virginia State Police Officers
HB 4241 - To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia
HB 4281 - To allow another round of “buy in” to the old public employees retirement plan for those that didn’t last time.
HB 4324 - Permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4505 - To expand the EMS retirement system
HB 4580 - Allow anyone with a master’s degree to sit for WV Bar exam and become licensed attorney
HB 4603 - To create the Occupational Licensing Legal Fund in the State Treasury
HB 4625 - Repeal the code provisions requiring auctioneers to be licensed and for auctions to be conducted by a licensed auctioneer
HB 4628 - Reinstate the Contractor Licensing Board under the Division of Labor
HB 4682 - Restricting the authority of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to regulate the use of commonly available, retail beauty products
HB 4690 - Expanding the eligibility requirements for private investigator and security guard licensure
HB 4721 - Require Surveyors to offer to record surveys of property
HB 4816 - Amending requirements for licensure relating to elevator mechanics, crane operators, HVAC, electricians, and plumbers
HB 4868 - To reduce the certification period for certain emergency medical personnel from 4 years to 2 years
HB 4884 - Allowing healthcare workers to refuse to perform procedures related to sex reassignment or gender identity transitioning for religious or conscientious objection
HB 4928 - Remove licensure requirements for certain radon specialists
HB 4939 - Banning certain practices by medical students without informed consent
HB 4972 - Allowing West Virginia State Police officers to bank sick leave and use it towards their years of service or to fund their health insurance
HB 4987 - To allow defined contribution plan public employees, such as teachers/administrators, to convert unused sick days into a cash value.
HB 5010 - Adopting the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination Act.
HB 5023 - To provide for two coal miners to go onto a job site where they will be gone over two hours within the mine
HB 5088 - To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing
HB 5117 - Relating generally to waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals
HB 5176 - To provide a pay raise to state mine inspectors
HB 5200 - Requiring that school counselors serving students in preschool through the 12th grade participate in the School Counselors Conference at least once every two years
HB 5252 - Requiring certain minimum experience for the director or coordinator of services class title involving school transportation.
HB 5297 - Relating to prohibiting pubertal modulation and hormonal therapy when provided to assist in a gender transition
HB 5324 - Relating to using reappropriated funds from “Personal Services” to offer tuition reimbursement to professional new hires
HB 5347 - Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics
HB 5352 - Relating to Pawnbrokers
HB 5355 - Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases
HB 5403 - 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.
HB 5491 - Relating to Certified Professional Midwife
HB 5551 - Relating to continuing education concerning domestic violence.
HB 5569 - Requiring an appraiser to pay for a background check required by the AMC as a condition of being added to the AMCs panel of appraisers.
HB 5570 - Relating to Cancer Prevention Programs for Firefighters
HB 5580 - Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in Program
HB 5582 - Modifying exceptions for real estate appraisal licensure.
HB 5608 - Relating to the use of legal cannabis sales profits to offset employee contributions to the Public Employees Insurance program.
HB 5632 - Relating generally to West Virginia Real Estate License Act
HB 5635 - Relating to allowing patients to direct prescribers to list the illness or condition for which a prescription is being issued on the label of the prescription
Public Safety (69 Bills)
HB 4190 - Relating to the establishment of an alert system for missing cognitively impaired persons
HB 4213 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4258 - To require railroad companies to provide alternative entry and exit ways
HB 4329 - Relating to creating the refugee information act
HB 4339 - Assisting governmental units training costs for certification of law enforcement officers
HB 4341 - Establishing a State Military Funeral Honor Guard in honor of Hershel “Woody” Williams, known as the Hershel “Woody” Williams State Military Funeral Honor Guard
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4423 - Protection of minors from harmful material on internet
HB 4435 - To create emergency stations at West Virginia rest areas.
HB 4455 - To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present
HB 4515 - State Living Donor Protection Act
HB 4574 - To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit, as is allowed for those who are 21 or older
HB 4586 - Bill to fund armed veterans at our schools.
HB 4621 - Relating to the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation posting booking photographs of an accused person
HB 4627 - Relating to DNA data maintained for law enforcement purposes
HB 4645 - Prohibiting the private ownership or operation of a prison
HB 4655 - Establishing an animal abuser registry
HB 4659 - Right to keep and bear arms
HB 4680 - To authorize an increase to the officer uniform allowance and to create a maternity and specialty uniform allowance
HB 4686 - Relating to the hunting of coyotes
HB 4723 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 4732 - To remove the state requirement for EMT’S to be nationally certified.
HB 4758 - Creation of the Joint Oversight Committee on the Fusion Center
HB 4785 - To regulate outdoor advertisements, specifically gentleman’s clubs
HB 4852 - Eliminate double taxation on foreign income at the state level
HB 4862 - Introduction of a “School Safety Program”
HB 4866 - Prohibit needle exchanges from providing services in West Virginia
HB 4867 - Require pornography websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content
HB 4868 - To reduce the certification period for certain emergency medical personnel from 4 years to 2 years
HB 4869 - To provide expansion of the Prudent Layperson Statute to include payment when no transportation is provided.
HB 4895 - Establishing speed limits in child care zones
HB 4917 - To provide an optional pop up window to sign up for NRA or USCCA firearms safety classes when purchasing a hunting or fishing license online.
HB 4918 - To codify the USCCA to provide concealed carry classes in West Virginia.
HB 4932 - Relating to authorizing certain individuals to have flashing lights
HB 4962 - Modifying compulsory housing for hotels and motels
HB 4976 - Providing the contact information of the Inspector General on the agencies and boards websites of the executive departments
HB 4978 - Relating to clarifying the authority of appointed officials
HB 4981 - Gun carry allowed on college campuses
HB 4982 - Relating to sex crimes and marriage
HB 4993 - To mandate response by fire departments be based upon distance/travel time from fire scene
HB 5015 - To create the Rural Area Department Volunteer Incentive Act of 2024
HB 5055 - To ensure that West Virginia law enforcement entities are not compelled or commandeered by federal authorities to conduct activities that violate our citizens’ Constitutional rights
HB 5068 - Make speeds that exceed 25MPH over the speed limit reckless driving.
HB 5072 - To require drones used by state and county personnel to be produced in the United States
HB 5086 - To create the Food Safety Act
HB 5098 - Requiring Federal law enforcement to coordinate with Attorney General and County Sheriffs
HB 5102 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 5135 - To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit and to add a definition of the term “ammunition” relating to the requirements for obtaining a state permit to carry a concealed deadly weapon.
HB 5172 - To reduce the business license fee for WV Volunteer Fire Departments to $250
HB 5181 - Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits.
HB 5226 - Child Social Media Protection Bill
HB 5232 - The Business Liability Protection Act
HB 5255 - To require insurance companies to reimburse ambulance agencies for providing treatment in place or transportation to alternative destinations
HB 5275 - Requiring political subdivisions to document funds spent on behalf of certain noncitizen immigrants
HB 5355 - Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases
HB 5415 - Relating to procedures regarding illegal entry into the state
HB 5421 - To create a K9 Search and Rescue Advisory Committee.
HB 5445 - Revising the statute to reduce the minimum age for a cadet for the West Virginia State Police from the age of 21 to the age of 18.
HB 5488 - To codify that The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful users of drugs and those addicted to controlled substances, specifically marijuana, may not ship, receive, or possess a firearm
HB 5502 - Relating to the sex offender registration act
HB 5507 - Clarifying the Governor’s powers regarding a state of emergency or state of preparedness and changing the expiration of a state of emergency or preparedness to 30 days
HB 5527 - To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.
HB 5545 - Allow state policemen to get credit for half of years served as city officer or county deputy sheriff and what they paid into their retirement system
HB 5571 - Requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access certain video survelilance
HB 5575 - Relating to fines for local fire departments
HB 5601 - To prohibit people taking their animals into a grocery store or a store that sells food if that animal is not a registered service animal
HB 5636 - Relating to facilitating the successful transitioning of offenders back into society
HB 5658 - To require all projects funded by the school building authority to have an assessment of school safety when a new project is created.
HB 5669 - Relating generally to the Business and Public Area Libability Protection Act
Public Service Commission (21 Bills)
HB 4009 - Relating to the members of the Public Service Commission
HB 4010 - Relating to providing notification of utility service disruption to its' customers
HB 4255 - Require PSC annual report on ratepayer utility costs to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance
HB 4291 - Local Energy Efficiency Partnership Act
HB 4665 - Moving recovery of certain expenses from the reconcilable rate to be charged to the users of the broadband facilities
HB 4674 - Require that a public service district board that represents more than one community have at least one member from each community
HB 4676 - Assure West Virginians proper access to water and sewage service at reasonable rates
HB 4711 - Assure West Virginians proper access to water and sewage service at reasonable rates
HB 4724 - To require that Public Service District Boards that represent more than one community to have at least one member from each community on the board.
HB 4770 - Creating the WV Energy Efficiency Jobs Creation Act
HB 4834 - Establishing a community solar program for subscribers to gain credits against their utility bills
HB 4864 - To prohibit municipalities from shutting off water service for the nonpayment of stormwater management fees.
HB 5004 - Relating to the statutory time frames for public service commission resolution of complaints against locally rate regulated water and wastewater utilities
HB 5005 - Relating to the authority of the Public Service Commission to order a capable proximate utility to operate a distressed or failing utility pursuant to a contract approved by the commission
HB 5089 - Creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects
HB 5096 - Change the requirement for posting public notices at the state and federal level for PSDs.
HB 5101 - Establishing reporting requirements for utilities that are members of a regional transmission organization
HB 5131 - Relating to net metering
HB 5413 - Requiring PSC modify processes regarding trash hauling rates.
HB 5605 - Relating to clarifying the responsibility of landlords and tenants for payment of water use expenses in leased dwellings after broken water pipes
HB 5617 - Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities
Real and Personal Property (31 Bills)
HB 4003 - To amend the law concerning ownership and possession of real property
HB 4347 - Establishing certain tenant protections and landlord notice requirements at rental properties
HB 4504 - To expand recreational benefits to West Virginia Landowners to promote land ownership within the State, increase property value, bolster the State economy, and to provide additional benefits to West Virginia taxpayers
HB 4520 - Recognize convictions of domestic battery in the fair and equitable distribution of marital property
HB 4528 - Requiring urban renewal authorities to submit proposed urban renewal projects to the affected local county boards of health
HB 4529 - Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties
HB 4619 - Reducing to one year the deadline for right to set aside deed
HB 4660 - Relating generally to landlords and tenants
HB 4685 - Exempting motor vehicles from personal property tax
HB 4708 - Relating to unsafe real property
HB 4721 - Require Surveyors to offer to record surveys of property
HB 4859 - Creating a new property tax category for short-term rentals.
HB 4940 - A squatter cannot be considered a tenant in WV.
HB 4952 - Relating to time frame of service of notice
HB 5091 - West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act
HB 5093 - Relating to revision of orders concerning distribution of marital property
HB 5134 - Deceased Disabled Veteran Real Property Exemption for Widowed Spouses
HB 5164 - Relating to the land use, manufacture, installation, and safety certification of Fabricated Self-contained Expandable Box Built Permanent Homes
HB 5169 - Restricting foreign ownership of land and other interests in the State of West Virginia
HB 5214 - Relating to payment of property taxes by co-owner or other intersted party limited to their interest
HB 5222 - Creating the State Property Protection Act
HB 5283 - Prohibiting certain foreign ownership of land
HB 5311 - Establishing tax treatment of real property owned by another state government
HB 5326 - Relating to prohibition of unfair real estate service agreements
HB 5327 - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act
HB 5333 - Relating to landlord and tenant
HB 5407 - Relating to personal property
HB 5416 - Relating to allowing the use of degraded properties as an approved location to place solar panels utilized by power generating units
HB 5443 - Clarifying that electronic data processing services are to be included in the valuation of specialized high-technology property
HB 5519 - Relating to authorizing the director of the Division of Forestry to contract for the management of state-owned and leased forests and wooded lands for purposes of preventing forest fires
HB 5630 - Requiring that county assessors send out notice to taxpayers when their property tax increases
Records and Papers (8 Bills)
HB 4233 - Non-binary not permitted on birth certificates
HB 4286 - Allowing a home improvement transaction to be performed under an oral contract
HB 4333 - Clarifying acceptance of e-file court orders without raised seal
HB 4379 - Issuing identification documents to homeless individuals residing at homeless shelters
HB 4442 - To ensure false claims on property titles are not fault of landowner
HB 4815 - To unseal adoption records after 21 years of age for adoptees for a one time fee of $30 and issuance of an original birth certificate for the common birth certificate fee.
HB 5265 - Require governmental meetings to have agendas posted on websites three days prior to the meeting
HB 5432 - To move the essential functions of the Information Services and Communications Division into the Office of Technology.
Resolutions (4 Bills)
HB 4634 - Requesting a study to evaluate and analyze the potential for bulk energy storage resources
HB 5339 - Requesting that the WV House of Delegates and the Senate open each session with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of West Virginia
HB 5589 - Transferring Funds from State Economic Development Authority to Wayne County Commission for Water Infrastructure
HB 5613 - Relating to requiring the Governor to establish crisis preparedness plans
Resolutions (Naming) (1 Bills)
HB 4262 - Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators
Retirement (35 Bills)
HB 4006 - Relating to Natural Resource Police Officer Retirement System
HB 4185 - To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
HB 4199 - Permit beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of the beneficiary’s retirement
HB 4207 - Increasing Retirement Benefits for Public Employees
HB 4264 - Modifying the West Virginia State Police Retirement System
HB 4281 - To allow another round of “buy in” to the old public employees retirement plan for those that didn’t last time.
HB 4330 - To provide a 5% cost of living increase for state retirees who make under $60,000 per year
HB 4332 - To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement
HB 4393 - Increasing the number of days that retirees in the Consolidated Public Retirement Board can work without a decrease in the amount they receive in retirement
HB 4505 - To expand the EMS retirement system
HB 4525 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act
HB 4611 - Raising retirement rate for Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System
HB 4719 - Relating to appointing members to county authorities
HB 4804 - Including all state correctional classifications in the Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System (DSRS)
HB 4808 - To allow retired school employees to work after 140 days in certain circumstances.
HB 4876 - Modify definition of final average salary within Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement System
HB 4877 - Authorizing expenditure of revenue from the Municipal Pension and Protection Fund and Fire Protection Fund
HB 4926 - Relating to retirement
HB 5080 - Change required service from 25 to 20 years for eligibility for minimum 1k retirement annuity
HB 5219 - Removing the 140 day a year cap placed on the amount of days a year a retired teacher can work before having their retirement penalized
HB 5225 - Public defender experience counts for judicial retirement
HB 5263 - Relating to the Consolidated Public Retirement Board and requiring participating public employers to remit retirement contributions and fees by electronic funds transfer
HB 5267 - Relating to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System
HB 5269 - Relating to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System
HB 5270 - Relating to the Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System
HB 5273 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service
HB 5393 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System
HB 5406 - To fund the Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement Fund from the DMV in the form of a 50-cent payment from every registration sold/renewed in the state
HB 5444 - Retirement credited service for West Virginia State Police
HB 5545 - Allow state policemen to get credit for half of years served as city officer or county deputy sheriff and what they paid into their retirement system
HB 5550 - Authorizing sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of service.
HB 5559 - Authorizing sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of services
HB 5619 - To increase the pay for retired state employees by 5% over three years beginning in 2025
HB 5674 - Matching the Deputy Sheriff’s retirement to corrections at 20 years of service.
HB 5675 - To increase the Deputy Sheriff retirement multiplier from 2.75 to 3.0.
Roads and Transportation (49 Bills)
HB 4167 - To mandate that credit card payment be acceptable at toll booths
HB 4195 - Relating to reporting requirements under the Grant Transparency and Accountability Act
HB 4221 - To eliminate the process of vehicle inspection in West Virginia
HB 4224 - Relating to performance metrics for the West Virginia Division of Highways
HB 4266 - Create camera assisted enforcement of speeding in active work zones
HB 4307 - Authorizing Division of Highways transfer of spending authority between appropriations
HB 4395 - Eliminating specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement
HB 4397 - Exempt non-profits from certain road sign fees
HB 4435 - To create emergency stations at West Virginia rest areas.
HB 4456 - To remove the helmet law in West Virginia.
HB 4458 - Elimination of Statewide Contracts that are awarded to out of state vendors
HB 4493 - Exempting school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls
HB 4519 - Requiring cooperation between the rail company and the Division of Highways when construction or maintenance activities are conducted by the company
HB 4638 - Ending the toll road when the bond is paid off
HB 4639 - Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees
HB 4672 - Ensure State Road Construction Account funds are in addition to general highways funds provided to the DOT districts
HB 4694 - Exempting law enforcement and emergency vehicles from paying turnpike tolls
HB 4705 - Relating to the consumers sales and service tax and returning the refundable exemption for sales of construction and maintenance materials acquired by a second party for use in Division of Highways projects
HB 4730 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts
HB 4737 - Requiring the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority
HB 4738 - Requiring legislative approval of additional parkways bonds and removing tolls once bonds paid
HB 4744 - Requiring certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased
HB 4766 - Require Division of Highways to place signage up 30 days prior to road closure
HB 4772 - Providing guidelines for the West Virginia Parkways Authority to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments
HB 4775 - Eliminating the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2024
HB 4785 - To regulate outdoor advertisements, specifically gentleman’s clubs
HB 4853 - To supersede all ordinances that restrict atv’s on paved roads
HB 4861 - Authorizing municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
HB 4895 - Establishing speed limits in child care zones
HB 4927 - To amend the provisions related to transportation including transportation reinvestment zones, public transit districts, local option sales and use taxes, transportation governance, and a road usuage charge program
HB 4942 - Adding a limitation on vehicular length for certain stretches of highway
HB 5109 - Requiring a warning light to be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead
HB 5237 - Prohibiting driving slow in left lane except under certain circumstances
HB 5313 - To require all stop lights in WV to be reprogrammed to add a 3 second pause between when one set of lights turns red and the opposite set of lights turns red
HB 5323 - To establish a $100 per year penalty for inaccurate signage posted on interstates for industrial and commercial/business parks that are not near the interstate exits
HB 5385 - Relating generally to the modification of vehicle tires.
HB 5386 - Relating generally to “Flagger Ahead” signs and flaggers on public roads in the State of West Virginia.
HB 5387 - Requiring any motorized conveyance operating 10 MPH below the posted speed limit on any public road in the state to display emergency flashers.
HB 5388 - Relating generally to asphalt grindings or millings from any WVDOH Right of Way
HB 5403 - 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.
HB 5428 - Exempt WV public school buses transporting students from tolls on WV Turnpike
HB 5434 - Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions
HB 5437 - Relating to time limits imposed on the Division of Highways to grant a highway entrance permit
HB 5438 - Exempting law enforcement and emergency vehicles from paying turnpike tolls
HB 5544 - Relating to requiring certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year
HB 5583 - Permitting the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to issue a special permit to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicles or nondivisible load exceeding the maximum specified
HB 5652 - Providing a statutory program for loaning financial assistance to local airports for airplane hangar construction in this State
HB 5657 - To permit bridges and highways to be named for distinct residential communities that are traditionally identified by a single name as a separate community or town without being incorporated and remain a part of the county services., naming these communities as villages
HB 5679 - Relating generally to DOH employees.
Salaries (2 Bills)
HB 5221 - Increasing the minimum wage based upon increases in the consumer price index
HB 5257 - Relating generally to allowing the Supreme Court of Appeals discretion to create uniform pay scales for all levels of judicial support staff.
Senior Citizens (2 Bills)
HB 4506 - Establishing reimbursement rates for congregate and in-home meals
HB 4865 - To amend the senior citizen tax credit threshold.
State Personnel (24 Bills)
HB 4199 - Permit beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of the beneficiary’s retirement
HB 4202 - Raising salaries for school service personnel
HB 4214 - Relating to hiring new West Virginia State Police Officers
HB 4330 - To provide a 5% cost of living increase for state retirees who make under $60,000 per year
HB 4331 - To allow money paid to state employees to go to their estate if they pass away before their retirement date
HB 4362 - End qualified immunity
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4707 - Relating to the management of personal service appropriations for vacant positions
HB 4735 - Create a Police Officer’s Bill of Rights
HB 4755 - Terminating the Division of Personnel
HB 4761 - Require Division of Personnel to reduce the time the hiring process takes
HB 4972 - Allowing West Virginia State Police officers to bank sick leave and use it towards their years of service or to fund their health insurance
HB 4987 - To allow defined contribution plan public employees, such as teachers/administrators, to convert unused sick days into a cash value.
HB 5001 - State Employee Paid Leave Act
HB 5029 - To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.
HB 5121 - Terminating the Purchasing Division
HB 5215 - Any Volunteer Fireman that is fully trained and active in 75% of all activities and calls are to be exempt from WV State Personnel Income Tax.
HB 5242 - Provide state employees who are volunteer emergency personnel paid leave for emergencies
HB 5312 - To increase the COLA by 15% for all retired state employees
HB 5389 - Restoring the Rule of 80 for all State Employees.
HB 5393 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired under the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System
HB 5434 - Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions
HB 5568 - Relating to salary increases for state employees
HB 5679 - Relating generally to DOH employees.
Taxation (123 Bills)
HB 4015 - Eliminate sales tax on Professional Employment Organization’s administration fees
HB 4181 - Providing tax credits to provide vehicles to certain persons
HB 4201 - To provide for the creation of an “EV Manufacturers Investment Credit.”
HB 4208 - Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school
HB 4213 - Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments
HB 4226 - Relating to providing a cap on property taxes
HB 4244 - Collecting a tax from manufacturers and distributors of opium and opiate drugs to be used for funding addiction and prevention
HB 4245 - The Young Professional Tax Credits
HB 4249 - To clarify that municipal B and O taxes shall only apply to the owner of a contract, and not to subcontractors on a project
HB 4269 - To exempt school buses from toll fees in West Virginia
HB 4280 - Relating to tax credit for disabled veterans for lifetime hunting, trapping and fishing license
HB 4294 - Relating to the reduction of State Gas Tax
HB 4304 - Allowing for surplus money collected above voter approved excess levy requests to remain with specific county and placed in general fund
HB 4318 - Exempting social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 4323 - Removing certain deductions for modification of social security income in adjusted gross income
HB 4359 - Exempting law-enforcement officers from payment of income and personal property taxes
HB 4365 - Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax
HB 4366 - Abolishing the Personal Income Tax
HB 4368 - Exempting firefighters and volunteer firefighters from payment of income and real and personal property taxes
HB 4373 - Increasing the Homestead Property Tax Exemption
HB 4380 - Provide that you can make monthly payments on property taxes
HB 4391 - Funding EMS and School Resource Officers through marijuana tax
HB 4402 - To remove the taxation on burials, funerals and cremation
HB 4406 - To provide that the first $100K made jointly or the first $50K filing single is exempt from the tax on social security
HB 4407 - Limiting the imposition of municipal business and occupation taxes
HB 4409 - Relating to property taxes dedicated to volunteer fire departments
HB 4440 - Modify how sales tax is collected on seller financed vehicle transactions
HB 4444 - To reduce the personal income tax to zero for those who make $80,000 per year or less
HB 4445 - Allowing low income senior citizens to receive certain tax credits without filing a state income tax return
HB 4463 - Continuing personal income tax adjustment to gross income of certain retirees receiving pensions from defined pension plans
HB 4469 - Authorizing a special election for presenting the question of a special levy renewal for levies expiring prior to the primary election scheduled for May 14, 2024
HB 4474 - Exempting certain hygiene products from sales tax
HB 4482 - Relating to Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
HB 4486 - Providing tax credits for expenditures related to the establishment and operation of employer-provided child-care facilities
HB 4496 - To create the West Virginia Small Business Payroll Tax Credit Pilot Program
HB 4507 - Creating a tax credit for improving facades in historic districts
HB 4512 - Establishing a tax credit for businesses who hire, promote and develop women and minorities into executive, professional or administrative roles
HB 4514 - Authorizing a temporary foreign brewers import license
HB 4521 - Remove sales tax on gun safes and certain firearm safety devices
HB 4523 - Relating to allowing a personal income tax exemption for First Responders
HB 4527 - To implement a Property Tax Poverty Exemption - School Excess Levy
HB 4535 - Provide valuation limitations to the Tax Commissioner for coal properties and to clarify the penalty for non-filers
HB 4548 - Relating to authorizing application of the manufacturing investment tax credit and the manufacturing property tax adjustment credit against personal income tax
HB 4549 - Relating to consumers sales and service tax and use tax exemption for certain goods to be incorporated into a qualified, new or expanded warehouse or distribution facility
HB 4555 - Providing valuation limitations for coal property taxation and clarifying the penalties for non-filers
HB 4556 - Require all tax assessments be done on a periodic schedule
HB 4568 - To exempt the full amount of social security benefits from personal income tax
HB 4569 - Exempting from the sales tax all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment
HB 4597 - To reduce the personal income tax to zero for those who make $60,000 per year or less.
HB 4600 - Repeal domestic animal tax
HB 4602 - Repeal municipal license and tax when state license required
HB 4614 - Relating to tax reductions and other aid
HB 4662 - Relating to withholding tax on income of nonresidents from natural resources royalty payments
HB 4678 - Child care expense tax credit
HB 4701 - Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit
HB 4710 - Limit property tax increases on certain individuals
HB 4722 - Create a credit against the severance tax to encourage private companies to make infrastructure improvements to highways, roads and bridges in this state
HB 4728 - Limit amount a county tax assessor can increase assessed value of antique or classic cars
HB 4731 - Provide that first $5000 per year earned on Military Duty, Active, National Guard, or Reserves be exempt from the WV State Income Tax.
HB 4752 - Providing a tax credit for obtaining certain certifications by the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system
HB 4754 - Exempting the processing of beef, pork or lamb by a slaughterhouse for an individual owner of the product processed from the Consumer Sales and Service Tax
HB 4762 - Prohibit municipalities from collecting B&O taxes on projects that are funded by state or federal government programs
HB 4787 - Relating to fees collected and deposited into the Affordable Housing Fund
HB 4789 - Prohibits tax preparation software companies from charging fee for electronically filing State tax returns.
HB 4794 - Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Hygiene and Infant Products
HB 4810 - Create the Education Tax Credit
HB 4812 - Capping amount of moneys to third party vendors who collect business and occupation taxes on behalf of cities
HB 4826 - Repeal municipal amusement tax
HB 4827 - Remove variable rate on gas tax
HB 4828 - Relating to limiting the personal income tax
HB 4850 - Removing the sunset clause from Oil and Gas Personal Property Tax
HB 4852 - Eliminate double taxation on foreign income at the state level
HB 4859 - Creating a new property tax category for short-term rentals.
HB 4865 - To amend the senior citizen tax credit threshold.
HB 4873 - Relating to legalizing cannabis production, sales and adult consumption
HB 4888 - Requiring ten percent of all state revenues derived from sales tax, excise tax, severance tax, or generated by any other means be placed in General Revenue and returned to the County Division of Highways
HB 4901 - To exempt the first $20,000 of earnings from the state income tax for West Virginia residents
HB 4944 - Relating to the tax exemption of a citizen who paid to have a cat or dog spayed or neutered.
HB 4947 - Creating the “First Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act”
HB 4954 - To reduce the amount of money provided in welfare programs for certain individuals
HB 4961 - To create the Substance Abuse Recovery Tax Credit
HB 4971 - Relating to Critical Materials Manufacturing Tax
HB 4984 - Relating to repealing tax credit for employing former employees of Colin Anderson Center
HB 4989 - To increase the tax rate on nonresidents by 1.5%
HB 5024 - Relating to exempting non-grantor trusts administered in this state from the personal income tax.
HB 5025 - To repeal the additional one and one-half percent interest rate for underpayments and specify an effective date
HB 5034 - To provide a reduction of the tax for companies who have 75% or more of their workforce as West Virginia residents
HB 5037 - E-cigarette and E-cigarette Liquid Directory
HB 5049 - Relating to exemptions from excise taxes
HB 5051 - Provide a tax credit to for-profit and nonprofit corporations to encourage the continued operation of child-care facilities for the benefit of their employees
HB 5052 - Increase the tax credit for employers providing child care for employees.
HB 5085 - To provide a tax credit for businesses who utilize recycling programs or recycling facilities
HB 5094 - Releating to Pollution Control Facilities Tax treatment and Wind Power Projects
HB 5115 - Relating to the valuation of farm property
HB 5157 - Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals
HB 5182 - Relating to receipts for payment of personal income taxes and the requirement thereof for annual renewal of vehicular registration
HB 5185 - Provide tax credit incentive to businesses and individuals that donate to pregnancy/birth centers
HB 5189 - Provide tax credit for homeschool students
HB 5208 - Providing tax credits for hiring those in recovery for substance abuse
HB 5215 - Any Volunteer Fireman that is fully trained and active in 75% of all activities and calls are to be exempt from WV State Personnel Income Tax.
HB 5220 - Authorizing State Tax Division Investigators to carry concealed weapon
HB 5261 - Relating to the definition of small arms for purposes of taxation
HB 5264 - Relating generally to the authorization and administration of optional county sales and use taxes and admission or amusement taxes
HB 5280 - West Virginia Short Line Railroad Modernization Act
HB 5296 - To exempt wage income earned from overtime for a period of three years
HB 5304 - Creating the Small Business Payroll Tax Credit
HB 5311 - Establishing tax treatment of real property owned by another state government
HB 5374 - Creating the Strong Family Tax Credit
HB 5382 - Relating to setting a date by which convention and visitor’s bureaus shall be accredited in order to be eligible for distribution of hotel occupancy tax proceeds.
HB 5392 - To reduce West Virginia sales tax on gasoline and diesel to zero, and make up difference with increase in sales tax equivalent to rate of tax
HB 5399 - To modify the state auditing practices of the volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments
HB 5443 - Clarifying that electronic data processing services are to be included in the valuation of specialized high-technology property
HB 5489 - Relating to removing the tax exemption for credit unions.
HB 5522 - Relating to providing a credit against the business and occupation tax imposed on coal-fired electric generating units to help off-set environmental compliance costs
HB 5535 - Tobacco Products Excise Tax Act
HB 5537 - Relating to sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes
HB 5542 - To allow for a full rebate for the amount of taxes paid for aircraft.
HB 5547 - Permit blighted building renovation be eligible for a tax credit
HB 5573 - To allow a $2,000 refundable child tax credit for all eligible for the federal tax credit
HB 5574 - To allow a $1,000 refundable child tax credit for all eligible for the federal tax credit
HB 5591 - Relating to required modification of levy rates resulting from increased valuation yield
HB 5630 - Requiring that county assessors send out notice to taxpayers when their property tax increases
HB 5647 - Increasing and maintaining the bracketed tax rates on the privilege of establishing or operating a health maintenance organization
Unemployment Compensation (7 Bills)
HB 4741 - To make those who fail drug test ineligible for unemployment
HB 5188 - Relating to awards and benefits for duty related disability in the municipal police officers and firefighters retirement system
HB 5276 - Relating to the amount of unemployment taxes and benefits
HB 5285 - Removing proviso for unemployment compensation “Threshold wage”
HB 5395 - Relating to judicial review of Board decisions
HB 5424 - Relating to eligibility for and amount of unemployment benefits
HB 5427 - Promoting a Return to Work Act
Uniform Laws (4 Bills)
HB 4297 - Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act
HB 4912 - Relating generally to the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act
HB 4913 - Relating to the Uniform Special Deposits Act
HB 4916 - Relating to the Uniform Unlawful Restriction in Land Records Act
Utilities (11 Bills)
HB 4540 - Relating to the Disconnection of Residential Utility during a State of Emergency
HB 4618 - Make the Consumer Advocate division separate and independent from the PSC
HB 4630 - Concerning the right of consumers of electricity to interconnect energy storage systems for use on their property
HB 4661 - Relating to utility rate increases
HB 4802 - To amend the law regarding sewer systems.
HB 4834 - Establishing a community solar program for subscribers to gain credits against their utility bills
HB 4925 - Requiring non-publicly owned utilities to notify customers by text correspondence that they have turned off their service and an estimated time of when it will be turned back on.
HB 5131 - Relating to net metering
HB 5365 - Emergency Water Supply Act
HB 5429 - To require Public Service Commission to hear requests for rate adjustments from public electrical utilities and issue a recommendation to legislature
HB 5626 - Relating to establishing a community solar pilot program for subscribers to gain credits against their utility bills
Workers Compensation (8 Bills)
HB 4216 - To reaffirm and enhance the workers compensation exclusive remedy rule or doctrine
HB 4283 - Creating WV Black Lung Program
HB 4310 - Relating to eligibility for workers' compensation benefits by requiring blood test after traumatic injury to determine intoxication
HB 4537 - Including three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters
HB 4687 - Repealing the law which makes prime contractors liable for the failure of subcontractors to make proper payments for workers’ compensation
HB 4698 - Relating to who may diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable injury or disease under workers compensation
HB 5244 - Relating to portable benefit plans
HB 5554 - Modifying the Occupational Pneumoconiois award categories for Worker’s Compensation
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