Legislative Information
2022 Legislative Session Bill Tracking
House of Representatives Bills 2022
Below are a list of bills the NASW WV Chapter was tracking closely during the 2022 WV Legislative Session, due to the impact they have on social workers and marginalized communities, whether in a positive or a negative way.
HB2007 - Provide for occupational licenses or other authorization to practice by recognition for qualified applicants from other states.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB2054 - Requiring parents or guardians to participate in programs for juveniles in an out-of-home placement.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2060 - Reducing the criminal penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana or paraphernalia.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2067 - Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB2086 - Relating to requiring a parolee or probationer found to have suffered with addiction to participate in a support service.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
HB2088 - Relating to requiring a court to verify certain conditions are met before a child who has been removed from a home may be returned to that home.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
HB2091 - Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election.
Last Action: 1/20/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2114 - Prohibiting civil rights violations based on disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2121 - Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act of 2020
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Workforce Development
HB2157 - Forbidding displays relating to sexuality in public school facilities and forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB2193 - Creating a litigation practice license for social workers.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB2232 - Providing a process by which a city may hold an election to recall an ordinance.
Last Action: 1/27/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2239 - Restricting the performance of abortions and acquiring, providing, receiving, otherwise transferring, or using fetal body parts.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2362 - Implementing trauma-informed practices in schools.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB2538 - Adding "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the categories covered by the Human Rights Act.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Workforce Development
HB2545 - West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2553 - Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2557 - Increasing access to contraceptive drugs, devices, and procedures.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2558 - Creating a domestic violence registry.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2594 - Creating the Unborn Infants Wrongful Death Act.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB2609 - Establish quick response teams to work with drug users who are arrested.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
HB2625 - Permitting election day registration of voters.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Political Subdivisions
HB2693 - Eliminating the Human Rights Commission
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB2698 - Making it illegal to discriminate based on hair texture or hair style.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB2731 - Provide for disclosure of potentially harmful ingredients in menstrual products.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2839 - Establish Recovery Can't Wait Program
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2840 - Increase state minimum wage
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
HB2864 - Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from voting
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB2954 - Abortion permitted only in certain instances
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB2981 - Providing veterans with suicide prevention assistance.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security
HB3006 - Creating a homeless education coordinator for county schools.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB3039 - Exempting certain hygiene products from sales tax
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Finance
HB3043 - Relating to transport of persons accused of being mentally ill to mental health relating hearings.
Last Action: 2/1/22 - To House Finance
HB3110 - Student Suicide Prevention - ID Cards
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB3112 - Requiring Trauma-Informed Employee training for employees of Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security
HB3123 - Family Leave Program: Provide paid time off for workers to care for a family member.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Workforce Development
HB3141 - Designating February 3rd as "Freedom Day," to memorialize the February 3, 1865 Act by the Legislature that abolished slavery in West Virginia.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Government Organization
HB3174 - Require Correctional Facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB3193 - Relating to obtaining an appropriate gender marker for state documents.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB3224 - Establish food desert produce pilot program
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB3225 - Hunger-Free Campus Act
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Education
HB3247 - Creating the Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan Fair Pay Act
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB3259 - Prohibit state funding for any organization that performs abortions.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Judiciary
HB3265 - Require and ultrasound prior to abortion
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB3276 - Creating parity for mental health services.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
HB4004 - Relating to limiting an abortion to fifteen weeks' gestation.
Last Action: 3/12/22 - To Senate on 2nd Reading
HB4037 - To extend the Neighborhood Investment Program Act to July 1, 2026 and to increase the allowable tax credit.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Finance
HB4049 - Relating to abortions after detection of an unborn child's heartbeat.
Last Action: 1/12/22 - To House Health and Human Resources
Similar to: SB212
HB4074 - Require schools provide eating disorder and self-harm training for teacher and students.
Last Action: 4/19/22 - To House Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
HB4231 - Authorizing the Board of Social Work Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Qualifications for the Profession of Social Work.
Last Action: 1/18/22 - To House Government Organization
Similar to: SB392
HB4232 - Authorizing the Social Work Examiners to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Continuing Education for Social Workers and Providers.
Last Action: 1/18/22 - To House Government Organization
Similar to: SB393
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2021Legislative Session Events, Alerts, Resources, Links - Click Here
NASW WV 2021 Legislative Action Policy Priorities - Click Here
Sign up for NASW WV Legislative Action Alerts! Click Here
Citizen Lobbyist Training Video click here
If you missed the virtual training, you're in luck! Watch
the recording and earn One (1) Category II CE hour ('individual
professional activities') ALSO prepare yourself for the legislative
session, including
Virtual Social Work Day at the Legislature ! (Late Feb. Date: TBD)