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

Increasing civil penalties for failure to file required campaign finance reports

The purpose of this bill is to encourage campaign finance reports to be filed in a timely fashion.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services- Foster Care from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Authorizing physician assistants to own business

The purpose of this bill is to allow physician assistants to own a practice, to allow the 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, provide definitions, and to authorize physician assistants to form a medical corporation and designates physician assistant as a professional service eligible for establishing a professional limited liability company.

Relating to recovery residences

The purpose of this bill is to remove the mandatory registration of recovery residences and limit the authority of the certifying agency regarding data collection and documentation of registered recovery residences.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Adminstration-Travel Management from the Unappropriated Balance

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase an existing item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services - Health Care Provider Tax-Medicaid State Share Fund from Special Revenue.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to increase existing items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Human Services - Substace Abuse and Treatment from Federal Block Grants.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to decrease and increase existing items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Bureau of Senior Services from the Unappropriated Balance.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Requiring competency assessment upon return to public school

The purpose of this bill is to require demonstration of competency of any nonpublic school, home school, microschool, learning pod, or individualized instruction plan student upon enrollment in a public school before the public school can transcribe grades onto a public school transcript.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Administration - Board of Risk and Insurance Management from Special Revenue.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Revising gold card process to include hospitals or department hospitals

The purpose of this bill is to expand the definition of episode of care and the definition of prior authorization; to revise the requirements for the gold card process to include a hospital, or a department within a hospital; to extend the timeframe for which the gold care is effective; to allow the Office of the Insurance Commissioner to respond within 24 hours if a gold card provider believes he or she has been improperly denied; to implement a standard gold card process; to increase fines; and to establish a new effective date.

Legalize use of a 4" pan to pan for gold in the state

The purpose of this bill is to authorize gold panning and have dates published showing when the season is open.

To permit the county commission of each county to lease, rent or to permit the use of a county owned wireless tower or any portion thereof, with exceptions

The purpose of this bill is to permit county commissions to lease, rent, or permit the use of a county-owned wireless tower or any portions thereof, with exceptions.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Education-Hope Scholarship Program from Excess Lottery Surplus

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Commerce - Division of Forestry from Federal Funds.

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase existing items of appropriation in the aforesaid account (for the designated spending unit ( Federal -- Department of Commerce Forestry) for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

Creating Transactional Gold and Silver Act

The purpose of this bill is to create the Transactional Gold and Silver Act.

Amending Constitution to allow for possession, manufacture and sale of cannabis

The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the State Constitution that would legalize cannabis possession; allow for the manufacture and sale of cannabis to be authorized by the Legislature; and allow the expungement and dismissal of convictions thereto.

Relating to certified public accountants

The purpose of this bill to update the provisions governing the education, examination and experience requirements for certified public accountants and to clarify substantial equivalency practice privileges and the issuance of certificates to out-of-state applicants/practitioners.

Requiring West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to contract with any otherwise qualified provider

The purpose of this bill is to require West Virginia Medicaid managed care organizations to allow in their network any willing provider which is otherwise qualified and credentialed, at the same reimbursement rate and other terms the same as comparable providers.

The Young Professional Tax Credits

The purpose of this bill is to create "The Young Professional Tax Credits" for student loans. The bill provides that the credit applies to college graduates from ages 18 to 40 or until the student loan is repaid. The bill also provides for a refundable child care credit.

Mountaineer Games Sports League

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Games Sports League.

State Living Donor Protection Act

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting coverage on a person under any life insurance policy, major medical coverage policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy solely due to the status of that person as a living organ donor.

Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child

The purpose of this bill is to grant full-time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave, following the birth of a child, or the placement of a child in the home through adoption or foster care. The bill provides that the leave is in addition to any other leave available to the employee.

Establishing workers cooperative corporations

The purpose of this bill is to establish workers cooperatives which are employee-owned corporations created to be operated for the benefit of the employees and the local community; providing guidelines and criteria for their incorporation and a process for their dissolution.

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