Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 4/14/2025 1:51 PM

SUPPORT:

• SB537 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Provides funding for pregnancy help organizations while prohibiting funding to abortion industry organizations. (Companion to HB2456)

• HB2164 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Authorizes local school boards, public charter schools, and private or religious schools to employ school security officers.
• SB154 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Allows parents or guardians to exempt their child from sexual orientation and gender identity instruction in public schools.
• SB280 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Requires the official US motto, “In God We Trust,” to be displayed in all public elementary, secondary and schools of higher education.
• SB914 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – relating to certain nonpublic schools; replacing the minimum 180-day instructional term and average of five hours of instruction per day requirements with a minimum instructional term requirement of 800 hours per school year; adding requirement that upon request, the school composite results be made available to the parents or legal guardians of a prospective enrollee in the school; removing the requirement that upon request of the West Virginia Department of Education, the school’s composite results be furnished to the State Superintendent of Schools; and removing ramifications of a school’s composite test results falling below the 40th percentile.

• HB2003 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Prohibits students from possessing cell phone in the classroom.

• SB299 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Prohibits the administration of gender-altering medications and gender reassignment surgeries to minors.
• SB456 – SIGNED into law – Clearly defines male and female within West Virginia state law to implement protections for single-sex spaces such as restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters.

• HB2129 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Parents’ Bill of Rights. Guarantees parents’ basic rights to make decisions about their children’s upbringing, education, health care, and mental health. (Companion to SB655, HB2070, SB596, SB659)

• SB198 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Makes it a crime to create, produce, distribute, or possess AI-generated child pornography, even if no real minor is shown.

• SB460 – Passed Senate – Rejected in the House – Allows vaccine exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons, and prevents schools from discriminating against those who use them.

• SB474 – Passed House and Senate – Waiting for Governor’s signature or veto – Eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion training, activities, offices, and officers from the executive branch, primary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education in West Virginia.

OPPOSE:

• HB3154 – Failed House – Authorizes licensed limited video lottery retailers and operators to advertise.