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WV SB759

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/14/2025

Primary Sponsor

Laura Wakim Chapman

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits requiring kinship parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and their household members to be immunized as a condition for being considered for child placement

  • Bars the Department of Health and Human Resources from requiring immunization records as part of eligibility determinations or home finding studies for foster care placements

  • Prevents the immunization status of prospective kinship, foster, or adoptive parents and their household members from affecting the department's child placement decisions

  • Overrides any federal requirements that would mandate immunizations for individuals seeking to care for foster or adoptive children

Legislative Description

Relating to having no requirement for immunization

Health

Last Action

To Health and Human Resources

3/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Health and Human Resources3/14/2025

Full Bill Text

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