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WVSB857Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for clinical genetic testing for an inherited gene mutation and evidenced-based cancer imaging; and providing that this testing is not subject to cost-sharing.
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2024-02-19
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WVSB856Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require insurance providers to provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations without cost sharing.
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2024-02-19
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WVSB852Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to modify the ratio of children at family child care facilities.
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2024-02-19
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WVSB831Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to ensure financial or product assistance are available for a prescription drug.
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2024-02-16
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WVSB825Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth from conversion therapy, also known as sexual orientation change efforts or reparative therapy. The bill makes legislative findings and sets forth a purpose. The bil...
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2024-02-16
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WVSB796Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to give a preference to West Virginia providers of medical services.
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2024-02-15
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WVSB793Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require contract terms for managed care contracts with the Bureau for Medical Services; requires the services of a Dental Contractor serving as a dental benefit manager or utilization review agent; requires managed care...
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2024-02-14
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WVSB792Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for postpartum healthcare.
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2024-02-14
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WVSB776Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a Medicaid state plan amendment. The bill provides that the Bureau of Medical Services shall seek a state plan amendment. The bill provides that the state plan amendment provides for cost sharing and/or premiums ...
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2024-02-14
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WVSB788Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to prioritize providing medical services to West Virginia Medicaid beneficiaries within West Virginia.
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2024-02-14
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WVSB787Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish a limit for fees charged for medical records.
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2024-02-14
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WVSB745Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to limit the price of prescription drugs to older West Virginians to the lowest price that drug is available in the United States.
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2024-02-12
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WVSB748Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to generally provide for certified professional midwives.
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2024-02-12
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WVSB759Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require a taxi company or network transportation company to provide annual training regarding human trafficking awareness to employees, and to provide for enforcement and rulemaking.
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2024-02-12
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WVSB753Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy to propose a legislative rule establishing regulations permitting prescription of Schedule 5 (V) drugs.
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2024-02-12
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WVSB739Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to include postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and obsessive-compulsive disorders in existing public health programs.
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2024-02-09
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WVSB723Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create the Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council; establishing findings and purpose; establishing membership of advisory council; setting forth subjects to be addressed by advisory council in reporting; providing ...
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2024-02-08
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WVSB718Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all financial support presently available to certified foster parents is provided to kinship parents and fictive kin. The barriers and burdens placed upon kinship parents and fictive kin are too onerous.
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2024-02-08
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WVSB719Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records without requiring a child to sign a document permitting his or her parents to see the records...
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2024-02-08
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WVSB693Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a Chronic Weight Management Task Force to study obesity and make report of its findings to the Joint Committee on Health. The bill sets forth the members of the task force and provides for administrative support ...
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2024-02-07
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WVSB671Intro
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The purpose of this bill generally relates to tobacco products. The bill defines terms. The bill increases the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes. The bill allocates revenue to the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention. The bill rep...
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2024-02-06
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WVSB633Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to requiring training in brain injury screening for personnel at Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, requiring screening of all incoming and currently incarcerated individuals for brain injuries, requiring that the...
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2024-02-05
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WVSB626Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a program to reward citizens for information on drug trafficking; to create an excise tax on opioid antagonists and test strips; create a special revenue account; to establish a program for providing rewards for ...
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2024-02-02
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WVSB563Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to do away with the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission.
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2024-02-02
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WVSB586Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish an insulin safety net program.
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2024-01-29
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WVSB566Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create a council to establish a state Alzheimer's Plan.
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2024-01-26
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WVSB576Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require child- care providers to be paid by enrollment rather than attendance of the child.
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2024-01-26
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WVSB553Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
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2024-01-25
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WVSB560Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions, and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.
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2024-01-25
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WVSB523Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require public schools to notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides a definition.
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2024-01-23
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WVSB517Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the biological sex to be limited to male or female and to require that nonbinary birth certificates not be issued. The bill also provides circumstances when an amended birth certificate may be issued to change g...
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2024-01-23
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WVSB520Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to enact an informed consent for vaccinations law.
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2024-01-23
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WVSB527Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to notify parents when prescribing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides definitions.
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2024-01-23
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WVSB499Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to permit the care of a patient by telemedicine across state lines.
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2024-01-22
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WVSB498Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to correlate the Medical personal needs allowance with the state poverty index.
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2024-01-22
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WVSB491Intro
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The purpose of this bill is amend the definition of "recovery residence", adding a new definition for "recovery support services"; and to require that the Department of Health contract with certifying agencies for a voluntary certification program fo...
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2024-01-18
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WVSB492Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease Control.
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2024-01-18
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WVSB421Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to rename the Department of Health and Human Resources.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB329Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to extend the foster care managed care contract.This bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission of Health and Human Resources Accountability.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB344Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to modify the registration as a service worker for the Bureau for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Resources
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2024-01-12
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WVSB379Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to establish protocols for collecting and preserving DNA evidence from rape and incest victims who receive surgical or chemical abortions; and notifying those persons that this evidence is being collected.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB333Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to dissolve the Public Employees Insurance Agency and convert it to an employer-owned mutual insurance company.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB383Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to increase the required medical coverage from various providers relating to autism spectrum disorders.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB396Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources to allow reimbursement for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests utilizing established CPT codes for these procedures when the patient is in a...
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2024-01-12
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WVSB330Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to create and fund a psychiatric residency program.The bill was recommended for passage during the 2024 legislative session, by the Joint Committee on Health.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB415Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to increase minimum salaries for Bureau for Child Support Enforcement attorneys from $45,000 to $75,000 per year.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB407Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
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2024-01-12
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WVSB342Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to improve patient safety in the medical cannabis program by authorizing permitted, regulated medical cannabis processors to manufacture medical cannabis in edible form for dispensing to certified patients in the state; an...
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2024-01-12
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WVSB343Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to require state intuitions of higher education, to the extent feasible, to provide to their students without charge and in a manner that protects student confidentiality, transportation to and from a local hospital for a ...
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2024-01-12
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WVSB423Intro
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The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
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2024-01-12
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