The Committee on Health and Human Resources met this afternoon.
Markup & Passage
House Bill 4599 updates the WV CARES process by requiring renewal before background checks lapse.
House Bill 4907 was pulled from the agenda.
House Bill 5086 formalizes peer support teams and services for correctional officers, emergency services professionals, emergency telecommunicators, and law enforcement officers. It allows for private testimonial communication between peer support members.
House Bill 5379 requires insurers to pay out-of-network emergency medical services agencies directly and to promptly pay clean claims.
Committee Hearing
House Bill 5345 requires child-care subsidies to be based on monthly enrollment rather than daily attendance. This will provide consistency for childcare providers, helping them stay open.
House Bill 4067 provides a childcare subsidy for any childcare employee who works 20 or more hours per week.
House Bill 4517 maximizes the utility and accessibility of West Virginia’s childcare tax credit for employers by extending this credit to employer-sponsored daycare facilities accessible to the work site in addition to on-site, fully employer-provided day cares.
House Bill 4782 creates the Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce & Foster Care Modernization Act, which requires the Bureau for Social Services to rebase all foster care rates using current cost data and implement an automatic annual adjustment based on a recognized index.
House Bill 4730 establishes a continuum of services and supports for youth preparing to exit foster care or who have aged out of it.
House Bill 5430 would require an annual study of pharmacy dispensing fees, limit the amounts charged by pharmacy benefit managers, and prohibit certain pharmacy benefit manager contracts with West Virginia Medicaid and the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency. It would also require implementing a pharmacy cost-containment tool.
