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Kayla Young (D - Kanawha, 056)

Minority Leader Pro Tempore



CONTACT

kayla.young@wvhouse.gov

Capitol Office:
Room 6R-A, Building 1
State Capitol Complex
Charleston, WV 25305
Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3362

District Phone: (304) 561-4234


Kayla Young Biography

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

MINORITY CHAIR: Government Organization
MINORITY VICE CHAIR: Energy and Public Works
Economic Development
Government Administration
Local Governments
Rules

INTERIM COMMITTEES:
Children and Families
Energy and Public Works
Government Organization
Post Audits Subcommittee
Rule-Making Review Committee


DISTRICT 056


District Counties: Kanawha

 

SPONSORED LEGISLATION, 2026

Delegate Young was the Lead Sponsor of 89 bills
BillTitleStatusCommittee
HJR 33Right to runPendingJudiciary
HJR 34Relating to citizen ballot initiativesPendingJudiciary
HJR 35Relating to a right to early childhood educationPending
HJR 36Relating to Reproductive Healthcare FreedomPending
HB 4731Relating to establishing the By-Right Housing Development Act to streamline the approval process for development when that proposed development meets all the rules for such development in a given communityPending
HB 4732Relating to zoning ordinancesPending
HB 4733To mandate coverage for breastfeeding and lactation consultant services Pending
HB 4734Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Hygiene and Infant Products PendingFinance
HB 4735Creating Corporate Anti-Subsidy ActPending
HB 4736Repealing the wine and liquor operating fund and operations feePending
HB 4737Relating to municipal regulation of stairway requirements in certain apartment buildings. Pending
HB 4738County authority to impose a vacancy taxPendingFinance
HB 4739Junk Fee Prevention ActPendingJudiciary
HB 4747Creating the Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation ActPending
HB 4748Relating to creating a digital wallet to collect and organize learning and employment recordsPending
HB 4754Prohibiting municipal zoning regulations from imposing certain minimum lot sizesPending
HB 4960Provide an increase in salary to WV Birth to Three contracted therapists and employeesPending
HB 4961Cap the amount of family income eligible for Hope ScholarshipsPendingFinance
HB 5062To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies ActPending
HB 5068Professional firefighter cancer screening Pending
HB 5075Relating to non-uniform DCR pay raisesPendingJudiciary
HB 5076Related to free filing of state tax returnsPendingJudiciary
HB 5077Related to Mental Health Protection ActPending
HB 5078Related to child tax creditPending
HB 5079Related to childcare workersPendingFinance
HB 5080Related to 12 weeks of paid leavePendingFinance
HB 5081Related to establishing a free business registration holidayPending
HB 5082Related to menstrual products in correctional facilitiesPendingFinance
HB 5083Related to paid leavePendingFinance
HB 5084Related to refundable child tax creditPendingFinance
HB 5085Related to troubled teen industryPending
HB 5114Remove sales tax on gun safes and certain firearm safety devicesPendingFinance
HB 5115To implement trauma-informed practices in schoolsPending
HB 5116Creating the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay ActPendingJudiciary
HB 5117Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from votingPendingJudiciary
HB 5118Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its durationPending
HB 5119Establishing the right to contraceptionPending
HB 5120MAHA - Menstrual Labeling ActPending
HB 5121To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female studentsPending
HB 5122Creating the Affordable Medicaid Buy-in ProgramPending
HB 5123Consumer Data Protection ActPending
HB 5124Relating to the eligibility of nonpublic schools and education service providers to participate in the Hope Scholarship ProgramPending
HB 5125Relating to fines for local fire departments PendingJudiciary
HB 5126To make it explicit that both the lottery fund and the excess lottery fund can be utilized for early childhood education throughout West VirginiaPendingFinance
HB 5127Allowing the Secretary of State’s office to transmit electronically the total ballots cast, counted, and rejectedPendingJudiciary
HB 5128To amend the section of child marriage under 18PendingJudiciary
HB 5129Change the powers of the West Virginia Water Development Authority regarding funding of Infrastructure ProjectsPending
HB 5130Permitting civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate imagesPendingJudiciary
HB 5131Establish food desert produce pilot programPending
HB 5132Develop a new method to determine the minimum number of hours per day and per school year to be spent on instructional time.Pending
HB 5133Permitting anyone age of 65 or older to vote absenteePendingJudiciary
HB 5134Small Business Investment Grant FundPendingFinance
HB 5135Establish Food Waste Task ForcePending
HB 5136Authorizing certain motor vehicle manufactures to operate as new car dealersPending
HB 5137Exempting county school buses from paying the toll feesPending
HB 5138Relating to law enforcement warrant for third party informationPendingJudiciary
HB 5139Authorizing municipal fire departments specialized license platesPending
HB 5140Employer discriminatory practices PendingJudiciary
HB 5141Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policiesPending
HB 5142Relating to vintage distilled spiritsPendingJudiciary
HB 5143Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutionsPending
HB 5144Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugsPending
HB 5145Relating to portable benefit plansPendingFinance
HB 5146Relating to drug schedulingPending
HB 5147Requiring full text of proposed Constitutional amendments be included on official ballotsPendingJudiciary
HB 5148Student Bill of RightsPending
HB 5149Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability BoardPending
HB 5150Establishing the West Virginia Secure Choice retirement programPendingFinance
HB 5151Creating the Office of Entrepreneurship within the Office of Economic DevelopmentPending
HB 5152Relating to the disconnection of residential utility during a State of Emergency Pending
HB 5153To provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesityPending
HB 5154Relating to statute of limitations for discriminationPendingJudiciary
HB 5155To prohibit convenience fees for tenant’s of rental properties PendingJudiciary
HB 5156Second Look Sentencing ActPendingJudiciary
HB 5157Relating to childcare subsidies within DHHR, paid based on monthly enrollmentPending
HB 5158Men’s Equality ActPending
HB 5159Relating to withholding tax on income of nonresidents from natural resources royalty paymentsPending
HB 5327West Virginia ALS Care Services ActPASS
HB 5332Agricultural Right to Repair ActPendingJudiciary
HB 5333To allow patients to refuse residents and medical students from observing or performing medical care on patientsPending
HB 5334Relating to lease termination and tenant privacyPendingJudiciary
HB 5335Relating to Animal AbusePendingJudiciary
HB 5336Relating to coercive control in domestic violencePendingJudiciary
HB 5337Relating to protection of personal informationPendingJudiciary
HB 5361Relating to federal law enforcement in specific locationsPendingJudiciary
HB 5408Relating to personal information disclosurePendingJudiciary
HB 5501Certified Professional Midwife Licensing and Regulation.Pending
HB 5540Relating to due process and rightsPendingJudiciary
HB 5594Require all American flags offered for retail sale in the State be manufactured in the United States of America.PendingJudiciary

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