West Virginia

2026 Regular Session·2,946 bills·Adjourned March 14, 2026

Track legislation moving through West Virginia. Browse 2,946 bills and resolutions during the 2026 Regular Session, each with a plain-language summary, current status from introduction to enactment, sponsors, and voting history.

Bills

Relating to fire department recruitment and retention

The purpose of this bill is to provide for recruitment and retention of volunteer and part volunteer fire departments.

Relating to community air monitoring programs

The purpose of this bill is to institute community air monitoring programs, define the data collected, and describe how that data is used.

Making syringe exchange services programs unlawful

The purpose of this bill is to make syringe services unlawful and provide for penalties for violation of the article. The proposed bill permits the provision of harm reduction services not associated with a syringe exchange program and permits an administrative timeframe for the transition of care. Requiring the Office for Health Facilities Licensure and Certification to seek penalties and the ability to seek injunctive relief for violations of the article.

Making ad valorem taxes on property payable only to county in which property is located

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the county to which ad valorem taxes should be paid when the seat of a well is in a different county than the location of the property from which the well draws.

Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms

The purpose of this bill is to define acts which constitute infringements of the right to keep and bear arms, to articulate the constitutional limits on such infringements, to declare all such infringements to be against the rights of the people and to be legally void, and to provide remedies for acts taken under the color of federal law.

Establishing Fueling Modern Life Act

The purpose of this bill is to abolish the provisions in §2-5-1 et seq., Air Pollution Control in the code and in lieu thereof, establish the Fueling Modern Life Act, stating Legislative findings and establishing state policy relating to carbon dioxide.

Exempting certain pension benefits from taxation

The purpose of this bill is to provide that all first responders, including those retiring to West Virginia, be exempt, from taxes.

Relating to authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to carbon dioxide sequestration fee schedule.

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a legislative rule relating to carbon dioxide sequestration fee schedule.This section is new; therefore,

Constitutional Officer Term Limit Amendment

The purpose of this resolution is to amend the constitution to prevent any person from serving in the office of Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General for more than three consecutive terms beginning after January 1, 2029.

Providing certified law-enforcement officers tuition-free education up to highest tuition rate for public higher education in WV

The purpose of this bill relates to providing all certified Law-Enforcement Officers ("LEOs") tuition free education up to the highest rate for higher education in this state.

WV code §19-20-20 apply to all animals, not just dogs

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the ownership of any vicious pet.

Relating to establishing a pilot program to develop a childcare program where the state, employer, and employee, contribute one-third of the total cost each

The purpose of this bill is to improve the affordability, access, and quality of childcare by reducing the cost to the parent or caretaker.

Clarifying Right to Farm Act relating to regulation of honey bees

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the Right to Farm Act and the regulation of honey bees. The purpose of the bill is also to include tropilaelaps mites to the definition of honey bee pests and to allocate funds through special license plates to be used for highway beautification to promote pollinators.

Prohibiting manufacture, sale, or distribution of cultivated meat products

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution of cultivated meat products for a five-year period.

Requiring declaration of pooled units be filed with drilling permits

The purpose of this bill is to require a declaration of pooled unit to be filed with the clerk of county commissions in which all wells in a unit are to be drilled.

Exempting non-grantor trusts administered in state from personal income taxation

The purpose of this bill is to exempt from state personal income taxation Non-grantor Trusts which have a tax situs in West Virginia.

Prohibiting camping in public places

The purpose of this bill is to address and define public camping in public spaces, create a penalty, and address existing ordinances.

To expand the EMS retirement system

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that an emergency medical services agency designated by a county commission to provide emergency response through a county emergency dispatch center qualifies as a participating public employer in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.

Establishing branch banks and FDIC insurance requirements

The purpose of this bill is to preclude the establishment of a branch bank or the acquisition or merger of a bank or a credit union by a bank or credit union unless they are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Relating generally to transfer on death deed

The purpose of this bill is to set forth the requisite capacity requirements for a transfer on death deed.

Emergency Medical Services Sales Tax

The purpose of this bill is to authorize county commissions to impose an emergency medical services tax.

Protection of the Right to Bear Arms Amendment

The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to prohibit the state, counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of the state from restricting the right to keep and bear arms.

Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods

The purpose of this bill is to require publicly-funded medical schools to teach the most current evidence-based, life-saving methods including abortion pill reverse.

Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in policies

The purpose of this bill is to require medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies.

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