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.