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

Allowing an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States

The purpose of this bill is to permit public schools and public charter schools to refuse to enroll a student who is unlawfully present in the United States.

To modify county school boards and county boards of directors

The purpose of this bill is to modify school boards and county boards of directors.

Requiring age-appropriate instruction on Holocaust in public schools

The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state shall give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.

To provide a tax sale process reform by creating two distinct legal tracks

The purpose of this bill is to provide a tax sale process reform by creating two distinct legal tracks: Owner-occupied property (people actively living in the home) and Non-owner-occupied property (abandoned, rental, speculative, or non-primary residence).This distinction governs notice, redemption, and post-sale remedies.

To establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 2026

The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 2026. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for the enactment of the program. Finally, the bill provides for a sunset and review date.

Relating to collecting a tax from all manufacturers and distributors of opioid drugs

The purpose of this bill is to collect a state excise tax against opioid sales calculated at one cent for 100 pills multiplied by the number of overdose deaths in the most recent year based on Health Department's death certificates. The tax shall be used to fund addiction prevention and recovery from opioid use.

To place rumble strips on all double-yellow lined roads and highways.

The purpose of this bill is to require rumble strips on double-yellow lined roads.

Relating to additional compensation of clerk of the county commission for additional duties.

The purpose of this bill is to provide supplemental compensation to county clerks for expanded election duties, including municipal election oversight, cybersecurity compliance, federal reporting, and election administration responsibilities transferred from circuit clerks.

Establishing the Central West Virginia Economic Development and Rural Revitalization Act

The purpose of this bill is to create The Central West Virginia Economic Development and Rural Revitalization Act.

WV Reshoring Manufacturing Act

The purpose of this bill is to encourage West Virginia businesses to replace foreign-manufactured goods with goods manufactured in West Virginia through performance-based, time-limited tax incentives that support sustained in-state production, workforce expansion, and long-term economic growth.

Creating volunteer board to review and rate library books

The purpose of this bill is to create the safe library books for kids committee.

Providing solutions for Child Welfare Payment System Challenges

The purpose of this bill is to improve the payment systems of Department of Human Services to ensure prompt payment through the Child Welfare Payment System for socially necessary service providers contracted to provide services through contracts with the state.

Change to House rule 49 regarding members present, time and recording.

The purpose of this bill is to require the House and Senate Clerk record all roll call votes in the journal on all questions pertaining to a direct personal or pecuniary interest when more than one-third of the members present vote by voting machine.

Creating a statutory right to petition circuit and family courts for sibling visitation

The purpose of this bill is to create a statutory right for siblings to petition a circuit or family court for visitation with their minor child siblings.

Excluding county reimbursement for any inmate declared incompetent to stand trial

The purpose of this bill relates to county reimbursement for housing and maintaining inmates; and excludes county reimbursement for any inmate declared incompetent to stand trial.

Providing protection of personal information of certain attorneys

The purpose of this bill relates to the personal information of protected individuals. The bill provides for the protection of the personal information of district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, and district attorney investigators. The bill provides for records of the office of the Secretary of State. The bill provides for an effective date. Finally, the bill provides for related matters.

To create felony charge for individuals who assault police officers or police dogs

The purpose of this bill is to amend penalties for any assault on a police officer or police dog.

To require child care subsidy payments in West Virginia to be based on enrollment rather than daily attendance

The purpose of this bill is to require child-care subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance.

Relating to creating the Open and Equal Opportunities in Student Activities Act.

The purpose of this bill is to permit students instructed at home, by a private tutor or enrolled in a private, parochial or church school or a school operated by a religious order, who do not attend a school that is a member of the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to participate in extracurricular athletic or other extracurricular activities at a school that is a member of the commission.

Allowing certain contracted counsel for executive agencies to purchase years of service in PERS

The purpose of this bill is to allow certain contracted counsel for executive agencies to purchase years of service in the Public Employees Retirement System.

Relating to establishing a comprehensive regulatory sunset and zero-based review system.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a comprehensive regulatory sunset and zero-based review system.

To modify the makeup of the State Board of Education

The purpose of this amendment is to provide for the election of five members of the West Virginia Board of Education, in a manner provided by law, and to provide for rulemaking by the Legislature.

Establishing fiscal notes submitted to the Legislature constitute sworn testimony

The purpose of this bill is to establish that fiscal notes submitted to the Legislature constitute sworn testimony, imposing criminal penalties for knowingly false or materially misleading fiscal notes, requiring referral for prosecution, and creating a safe harbor for those fiscal notes submitted and made in good faith.

To create the Coalfield Housing Revitalization Tax Credit Act.

The purpose of this bill is to create a tax credit for rehabilitation of vacant or dilapidated residential properties in coalfield counties.

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