Bill Watch List

Updated: 2/15/2025 8:59 PM

SUPPORT:

    Abortion Related Bills:
    • HB2352 Introduced – Requires that a woman seeking an abortion be informed of risks and offered an ultrasound 48 hours prior to the abortion before she gives consent.
    • SB17 Introduced – Fetal Heartbeat Act. Bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
    • SB51 Introduced – Removes exceptions so that abortion would no longer be permitted in cases of rape or incest.
    • SB85 Introduced – Bans the use and sale of abortifacients (drugs that can cause an abortion.)
    • SB97 Introduced – West Virginia Chemical Abortion Prohibition Act. Makes chemical abortions illegal.
    Crime Related Bills:
    • SB31 Introduced – Requires DNA testing for all people convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors.
    Drug Related Bills:
    • HB2218 Introduced – Sets penalties for tampering with or changing the results of medical cannabis testing.
    • SB444 Introduced – Mandates a three-year prison sentence for possessing Schedule I or II drugs.
    Education Related Bills:
    • HB2071 Introduced – Allows parents or guardians to exempt their child from sexual orientation and gender identity instruction in public schools. (Companion to SB154)
    • HB2087 Allows taxpayers to review online curriculum and instructional materials adopted by school boards and lets anyone file a complaint.
    • HB2164 Introduced – Authorizes local school boards, public charter schools, and private or religious schools to employ school security officers.
    • SB54 Introduced – Requires all public schools to give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
    • SB80 Introduced – Requires each county school board to implement a one-minute period of silence in every classroom each day, allowing students to personally choose whether to meditate, pray, or engage in other quiet activities
    • SB94 Introduced – Requires human growth and development education to be added to school curriculum.
    • SB154 Introduced – Allows parents or guardians to exempt their child from sexual orientation and gender identity instruction in public schools. (Companion to HB2071)
    • SB201 Introduced – Anti-Racism Act. Prohibits schools and education officials from forcing students or staff to adopt certain concepts, such as “A person is racist just because of their race,” or “A person is responsible for the actions of others in their race.”
    • SB424 Introduced – Restoring Sanity Act. Bans certain educational practices in public K-12 schools and state colleges by limiting teaching on race and gender topics, restricting the use of preferred pronouns, and preventing the creation of DEI offices.
    Ethics Related Bills:
    • SB431 Introduced – Increases penalties for indecent exposure to protect minors from sexually explicit performances, particularly involving transvestite or transgender displays.
    Firearms Related Bills:
    • SB48 Introduced – Creates a mobile training team for school safety, and allows school teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons as “school protection officers.”
    • SB64 Introduced – Prevents financial institutions from discriminating against firearms businesses.
    • SB270 Introduced – Declares the sale, repair, and manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and related items as “essential” during emergencies.
    • SB272 Introduced – Creates a civil offense for financial institutions or government entities that discriminate against businesses involved in lawful firearm-related commerce.
    • SB445 Introduced – Allows West Virginia legislators and staff with concealed carry permits to carry firearms in the Capitol, as long as they register with Capitol Police.
    • SB449 Introduced – Allows shooting teams to use air rifles and rimfire rifles legally in educational programs in West Virginia schools.
    Foster Care Related Bills:
    • HB2369 Introduced – Limits parents to three chances to fix issues of abuse or neglect, ensuring quicker decisions about children’s placements.
    Health Related Bills:
    • HB2151 Introduced – Requires publicly-funded medical schools to provide education on abortion pill reversal, treatment of ectopic pregnancies, and miscarriage management.
    • SB87 Introduced – Allows pregnancy help centers receive funding for things like equipment and training, not just for services.
    LGBTQ Related Bills:
    • HB2033 Introduced – Protects adoptive and foster parents from being forced to support government policies on sexual orientation or gender identity if those policies go against their religious or moral beliefs. (Companion to HB2153)
    • HB2072 Introduced – Allows healthcare providers to refuse involvement in sex reassignment or gender transition treatments if it goes against their religious or personal beliefs.
    • HB2127 Introduced – Clarifies laws on sex discrimination, gender equality, and services based on sex, defines key terms such as “woman,” “man,” “girl,” and “boy,” and affirming that sex is biological and fixed, not based on gender identity.(Companion to SB244)
    • HB2153 Introduced – Protects adoptive and foster parents from being forced to support government policies on sexual orientation or gender identity if those policies go against their religious or moral beliefs. (Companion to HB2033)
    • SB279 Introduced – Bans gender transition surgeries and treatments for minors.
    • SB299 Introduced – Prohibits the administration of gender-altering medications and gender reassignment surgeries to minors.
    • SB456 Introduced – 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.
    Parental Rights Related Bills:
    • HB2070 Introduced – Parents’ Bill of Rights. Guarantees parents’ basic rights to make decisions about their children’s upbringing, education, health care, and mental health. (Companion to HB2129) (Companion to HB2129)
    • HB2129 Introduced – Parents’ Bill of Rights. Guarantees parents’ basic rights to make decisions about their children’s upbringing, education, health care, and mental health. (Companion to HB2070)
    • HB2372 Introduced – Parents’ Bill of Rights. Guarantees parents’ basic rights to make decisions about their children’s upbringing, education, health care, and mental health. (Companion to HB2070)
    • SB229 Introduced – Protects children conceived from sexual assault and their survivors by preventing contact with the perpetrator, allowing parental rights to be terminated for the perpetrator, and requiring continued child support.
    Pornography Related Bills:
    • HB2363 Introduced – Clarifies that the possession of child pornography does not apply to law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, magistrates, jurors, or their support staff while performing their official duties.
    • SB27 Introduced – Clarifies the felony of exhibiting “obscene matter” to a minor by including any sexually graphic material shown to a minor with the intent to seduce them.
    • SB198 Introduced – Makes it a crime to create, produce, distribute, or possess AI-generated child pornography, even if no real minor is shown.
    • SB276 Introduced – Makes it a criminal offense for an adult cabaret performance (drag show) to be viewed by a minor.
    • SB278 Introduced – Prohibits obscene materials in or within 2,500 feet West Virginia schools.
    Tax Related Bills:
    • HB2122 Introduced – Creates a sales tax exemption for specific infant and hygiene products.
    Vaccine Related Bills:
    • SB108 Introduced – Allows private schools to voluntarily require or offer immunization for students, rather than mandating it by law.
    • SB250 Introduced – Provides a religious exemption to school vaccine requirements.
    • SB289 Introduced – Allows exemptions to vaccination requirements for religious and philosophical reasons.
    • SB460 Introduced – Allows vaccine exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons, and prevents schools from discriminating against those who use them.

    OPPOSE:

      Drug Related Bills:

      • SJR3 Introduced – Constitutional Amendment. Allows citizens to possess up to two ounces or four cannabis plants for personal use.