Boards And Commissions
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Removing restrictions for supervising physicians for nurse practitioners or physician assistants in WV [SB-660]
The purpose of this bill is to empower qualified physician assistants and certified nurse practitioners to practice without the supervision of a physician.
Sponsored by: Sen. Tom Willis
Filed For Introduction on 03/03/2025
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Relating to reporting duties of county commission regarding ambulance services [SB-630]
The purpose of this bill is to require the county commissions to provide ambulance service to all residents and to submit a yearly report to the Office of Emergency Medical Services on the funds expended the year prior on emergency ambulance services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Vince Deeds
Filed For Introduction on 02/28/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To protect homeowners from unscrupulous contractors [HB-3047]
The purpose of this bill is to require a written contract between a licensed contractor and owner or lessee of residential property and information to be contained in the written contract.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phil Mallow
Filed For Introduction on 02/28/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Addressing the number of ambulance squads needed per affected population in every county [HB-3009]
The purpose of this bill is to require counties to provide ambulance services at a ratio of one ambulance for every 20,000 residents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phil Mallow
To House Agriculture, Commerce And Tourism on 02/28/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to fees and charges for municipality-provided fire services [SB-601]
The purpose of this bill relates to charges for municipality-provided fire services; requires county commission approval before such fees are imposed on individuals or businesses located outside the municipality; and provides a process for individuals or businesses located outside the municipality to challenge municipality-provided fire services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Vince Deeds
House Received Senate Message on 03/24/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact, create the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact Commission, and provide for the administration of the Compact. [HB-2941]
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact, create the Interstate Cosmetology Licensure Compact Commission, and provide for the administration of the Compact.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Ferrell
Filed For Introduction on 02/25/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Require at least one person of the WVU Board of Governors and of the West Virginia State University with a background in agriculture or agricultural field [HB-2727]
The purpose of this bill is to require one person of the West Virginia University Board of Governors and of the West Virginia State University Board of Governors with a background in agriculture or in an agricultural field.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Anderson
To House Higher Education on 02/27/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To make the fire board or county commission responsible for the operations of every fire department within their county [HB-2898]
The purpose of this bill is to grant administrative control of fire departments within a county to the county commission in that county when they are not already under administrative control of a municipal corporation, and to abolish fire county boards.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Burkhammer
Filed For Introduction on 02/24/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Prohibiting spending authority for money used by board or commission that retains labor position [SB-572]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit spending authority for money used by a board or commission that retains a labor position.
Sponsored by: Sen. Eric Tarr
Filed For Introduction on 02/24/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To modify requirements of Funeral Service Directors/Embalmers [HB-2700]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the education and apprenticeship requirements to obtain a license for funeral directors and embalmers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Horst
Filed For Introduction on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-786]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311.530 to 311.620 to permit an international medical graduate to apply for a provisional license that may lead to a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in Kentucky notwithstanding KRS 311.571; require the Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to establish provisional licensure pathway requirements, applicant requirements, eligibility for obtaining a full and unrestricted license after completing the provisional period, establish a data collection process to evaluate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-699]
Amend KRS 118.176 to require the county board of elections or the State Board of Elections to notify a candidate and the appropriate certifying authority that the candidate fails to meet the jurisdictional or party affiliation requirements for the office sought; require that the notification be made by the first Friday after the candidate filing deadline; require that the certifying authority shall not certify any candidate that fails to meet requirements; provide that a candidate whose bona fides are questioned may appeal a certifying authority's
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact. [HB-762]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 313 to adopt the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to buprenorphine products. [HB-788]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed physician to meet the treatment needs of a patient; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed advanced practice registered nurse meet the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From Health Services (h) on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to recreation and tourism development. [HB-808]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and executive director requirements of the authority; establish the duties and purposes of the authority; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; provide that a landowner that has a contractual agreement with the authority for use of private land as part of a recreational
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. [HB-735]
Amend KRS 243.036 to allow a licensed auctioneer to hold a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; establish duties, privileges, and limitations for auctioneers who hold the license; suspend the auctioneer's special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license if the person ceases to be a licensed auctioneer; make a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license valid for one year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 330, relating to auctioneer licensing, to allow a licensed auctioneer to obtain a special temporary alcoholic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public water and wastewater systems and declaring an emergency. [HB-741]
Amend KRS 224A.320 to require that eligible funding recipients for the Kentucky Water and Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems (WWATERS) Program meet three or more of the eligibility criteria instead of one; require that a funding application for a capital construction project include cost and timeline estimates prepared and signed by a licensed professional engineer; allow the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority board to evaluate and score funding applications for proposed projects in phases; remove the funding evaluation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Returned To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-706]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program. [HB-732]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms; establish the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program to provide eligible classroom teachers with financial and technical support in purchasing school supplies; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt policies and promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into contracts for an online commerce platform and to identify online school supplies vendors for the program; provide that the Act may
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Imes
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to responsible gambling. [HB-781]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require tracks licensed by the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation to implement programs that promote responsible gambling.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025