West Virginia 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB280
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
3/7/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Refer
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/12/25
Passed
4/29/25
The purpose of this bill is to require "In God We Trust" signs be displayed in public schools.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB281
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to balance the interests of current landowners and future landowners to ensure surface, minerals, and forest land may be developed for future economic gain by limiting use restrictions for forest carbon capture and sequestration to a maximum term of 20 years. The bill defines certain terms. The bill requires parties to current and new carbon offset agreements to register with the State Tax Department. The bill requires reports by Division of Forestry and the State Tax Department. The bill authorizes the disclosure of information between the Tax Commissioner and Division of Forestry. The bill imposes excise tax on receipts derived from carbon offset agreements. The bill sets forth reporting requirements. The bill provides an effective date. The bill defines "managed timberland" to exclude timberland that is subject to a carbon offset agreement. The bill specifies application of West Virginia Tax Procedure and Administration Act and West Virginia Tax Crimes and Penalties Act. The bill authorizes promulgation of rules. The bill provides legislative findings and declarations. The bill provides that any covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document, which is executed or recorded after the effective date, which effectively prohibits or restricts the development of land, minerals, and the harvesting of timber for the purposes of forest carbon capture, carbon offset, and carbon sequestration is void and unenforceable, unless said covenant, restriction, condition, easement, contract, lease, deed, agreement, option, or other governing document is for a maximum term of 20 years. The bill provides that options to renew or continue such arrangements beyond the initial maximum term of 20 years shall be valid only if the consideration is required to be renegotiated to exercise the option.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB282
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/24/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Passed
4/15/25
The purpose of this bill is to change the expiration date for certain provisions that pertain to allowing a person receiving retirement benefits under the Teachers Retirement System to accept employment as a critical needs substitute teacher for an unlimited number of days each fiscal year if certain conditions are satisfied.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB283
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/24/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Enrolled
3/26/25
Passed
4/1/25
The purpose of this bill is to expand the grade levels that the course of study in personal finance can be completed in for the purpose of counting toward satisfying the personal finance course requirement for high school graduation.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB284
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The purpose of this bill is to reinstate, with minor revisions, changes to §18-5-1a that passed during the 2024 regular session but were unintentionally overridden by a subsequently passed bill; and to automatically set the compensation rate for county board of education members at $260 per meeting attended unless the board votes to approve a lower rate.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB285
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Guardian Program. The bill sets out the purpose of the program and allows county school boards to hire independent contractors to provide safety services in schools. The bill defines terms, sets out the authority of independent contractors, and provides requirements for participation in the program. The bill also provides for exclusions from participation in the program. The bill provides for a limitation of liability for county school boards, provides exemptions from purchasing requirements, and excludes independent contractors in the program from participation in state benefit programs.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB286
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/19/25
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.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB287
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide additional protection for the minor victims of sex trafficking.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB288
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to limit the liability of employers in cases where convictions of an employee for certain crimes are expunged. The bill requires creation of a data base record showing offenses were expunged. Courts are required to cross-reference data base for expungements. The bill provides that an employer is not liable to furnish health insurance or health care costs to persons whose records are expunged for drug addiction related or drug addiction related diseases.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB289
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to create exemptions to mandatory vaccination requirements to accommodate religious conviction and philosophical beliefs. The bill also revises the existing medical exemption process and eliminates the position of the State Immunization Officer. The bill permits injunctive relief for violations of this section.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB29
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Engrossed
3/3/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
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 assistant has a proprietary interest. It provides that the term "physician assistant" is synonymous with
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB290
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the rehabilitation of orphaned, injured, or ill wildlife. The bill provides for the issuance of a Wildlife Rehabilitator permit, establishes requirements for the permit, and authorizes rulemaking. The bill authorizes care for wildlife by Wildlife Rehabilitators. The bill also authorizes care for wildlife by licensed veterinarians, humane societies, and animal control agencies, and provides for transport by individuals of orphaned, injured, or ill wildlife to authorized caregivers. The bill sets restrictions on care provided to wildlife, provides for treatment of non-releasable wildlife, and provides for removal of wildlife improperly cared for by a Wildlife Rehabilitator.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB291
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/21/25
Engrossed
2/26/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Passed
3/24/25
The purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe for registration from annually to biennially.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB292
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Engrossed
3/26/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
3/26/25
Refer
4/4/25
The purpose of this bill is to require doula services to be covered by Medicaid and PEIA and to increase reimbursement rates.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia Senate Bill SB293
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the distribution of pornographic materials to persons under 18.