| WV | SB786 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify the date for implementing massage establishment licensure, and to provide authority for the board to issue an emergency order halting establishment operation until the establishment is in compliance with §30-3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 198, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB667 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates to the creation of the Physicians Licensure Compact. The bill provides for a purpose. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for state participation in the compact. The bill creates the compact privilege. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 197, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB714 | Veto | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the licensing of physicians and the transition of the duties and functions of the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to the West Virginia Board of Medicine, effective January 1, 2025. The bill ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | SB769 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain medical practices; prohibit medical providers from performing pelvic, prostate, rectal, and breast exams on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specific circumstances; and establish an effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB595 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the embalmer licensing requirements to permit a certain number of years of active military duty to substitute for college credit hours to qualify for licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB748 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to generally provide for certified professional midwives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB753 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB563 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB357 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the scope of work of a dental hygienist to permit the dental hygienist to provide tobacco cessation education to patients to improve overall dental health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB560 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB536 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law enforcement officers with less than academy training from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB499 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the care of a patient by telemedicine across state lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB169 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to allow physician assistants to own a practice. This bill also allows the West Virginia Board of Medicine to deny a license or other authorization to physician assistants who make unlawful referrals where that physician a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB161 | Intro
25% | Creating emeritus physician license
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
Referred to Rules on 3rd reading |
| WV | SB433 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition against monies in the board's special revenue fund reverting to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to clarify that any fines the board collects are to be deposited into the General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB411 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill generally relates to the waiver of initial licensing fees for certain individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB344 | Intro
25% | 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
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB388 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish responsibility for reimbursement of training costs of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction of employment for employment in any other law-enforcement agency in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB432 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide clarification regarding when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to limit the amount of excess funds that may be transferred to the General Revenu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB407 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB297 | Intro
25% | Providing that continuing education credits shall be valid for three years
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB239 | Intro
25% | Clarifying when excess funds accumulated by boards are to be transferred to General Revenue Fund
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB216 | Intro
25% | Extending time that prescription for spectacles remains valid
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB192 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the required credentials for a certified registered nurse anesthetist who cooperates with a physician or dentist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
