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 non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amount of non-traditional instruction days for teachers.

Permitting law enforcement to issue a citation when students are caught with nicotine in schools.

The purpose of this bill is to permit law enforcement to issue a citation when a student enrolled in a public school or public charter school possesses nicotine in those schools.

Relating to establishing the Low Earth Orbit Broadband Internet Connection Fund.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a new fund for expenditure to provide the installation of equipment used to receive Low Earth Orbit Broadband Internet Connections throughout the state.

To create the West Virginia Rural Littering and Illegal Dumping Prevention Act.

The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Littering and Illegal Dumping Prevention Act and enhance the penalties.

Directing the Supreme Court of Appeals to create a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County

The purpose of this bill is to direct the Supreme Court of Appeals to assign appropriate judicial officers for a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County.

Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards

The purpose of this bill is to allow members of institutional boards of governors to serve on the state Professional Charter School Board if otherwise qualified and to permit appointed members of the Professional Charter School Board to be appointed as lay members of institutional boards of governors if otherwise qualified.

Establishing of the West Virginia Public Participation Act

The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Public Participation Act. The bill provides additional protections to individuals and entities engaged in the exercise of the protected constitutional rights of free speech, freedom to petition, and freedom of association by allowing for the filing of a motion to dismiss in response to strategic lawsuits against public participation. The bill establishes procedures for reviewing strategic lawsuits against public participation and sets forth the applicability and limitations of the defense.

Creating Protecting Shareholders Act

The purpose of this bill is to establish standards for a breach of fiduciary duty under the Protecting Investors Act.

Establishing WV Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act

The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act.

Relating to utility lines on the Division of Highways rights of way

The purpose of this bill is to is to facilitate timely utility relocation whenever the relocation is properly completed within the dates established by the DOH. This will reduce project delays.

Permitting civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images

The purpose of this bill is to permit a civil action for the unauthorized disclosure of an intimate image, to permit civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images, to provide a short title, to create definitions, to provide for a civil action, to provide exceptions to liability, to provide for plaintiff's privacy, to provide for remedies, to create a statute of limitations, to provide for construction, to provide for uniformity of application and construction, and, finally, to create an effective date.

Relating to portable benefit plans

The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary portable insurance plans.

Establishing the right to contraception

The purpose of this bill is to provide for a right to contraception.

Establishing the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board

The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board; provide definitions; provide for the creation of a Board and the composition, compensation, and duties associated with the Board; provide for the creation of a stakeholder council and the composition, and duties associated with the Council; provide disclosures of conflicts of interest and requiring adherence to the Ethics Act; require a study and report on transparency data on prescription drug products; provide a cost review of prescription drug products with affordability challenges; require confidentiality; establish a fund; provide for enforcement; clarify drug products eligible; provide remedies; and list all report requirements.

Relating to Reproductive Healthcare Freedom

The purpose of this resolution is to amend the state constitution to preserve the right to reproductive freedom.

Requiring medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies

The purpose of this bill is to require medical insurance providers to include infertility services in their policies. The bill makes findings. The bill provides for determination of infertility. The bill provides prohibited and permissible limitations on coverage. The bill requires rule-making. The bill establishes an effective date. The bill provides for severability. The bill defines terms.

To create the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act

The purpose of this bill is to improve maternity and infant care by creating the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act.

Reducing participation required to receive volunteer firefighter tax credit

The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount of participation requirement to receive the volunteer firefighter tax credit from 30 percent to 20 percent.

Relating to abuse and neglect cases

The purpose of this bill is to increase compensation of all panel attorneys and guardians ad litem. The bill also creates an assistant guardian ad litem position and outlines what language is required in juvenile abuse and neglect case orders.This bill was recommended for introduction by the Joint Committee on Children and Families.

To make it explicit that both the lottery fund and the excess lottery fund can be utilized for early childhood education throughout West Virginia

The purpose of this bill is to provide that funds from the Lottery Education Fund, the State Lottery fund, and the Excess Lottery Fund be used for childhood education in the state.

Related to child tax credit

The purpose of this bill is to create and authorize a state child tax credit for eligible children.

Relating to program requirements of Bureau for Family Assistance

The purpose of this bill is to set forth program requirements for the Bureau for Family Assistance to come into federal compliance with the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Establish setback from residential properties for new windmills being constructed throughout the state.

The purpose of this bill is to establish a minimum distance from residences and certain infrastructure for wind turbines in order for the commission to award a siting certificate for a wind energy system.

To prohibit public colleges and universities in this state from requiring vaccines for admission.

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit vaccine mandates at all institutions of higher education.

To prohibit convenience fees for tenant’s of rental properties

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit convenience fees for tenants of rental properties.

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