A sampling of bills introduced Friday, Jan. 27

David Beard, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.
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Jan. 27—MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Friday, Jan. 27. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted.

— HB 3097, to prohibit Medicaid and CHIP payment for irreversible gender reassignment surgery to a person under 18.

— HB 3102, to authorize Adopt-A-Trail programs for volunteers to clean up and maintain trails on public lands under DNR control.

— HB 3103, to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds ; Delegate Amy Summers, R-Taylor, co-sponsor. Also introduced, SB 492, to require legislators and staff who hold a current concealed carry permit to register with the Capitol Police an intent to carry concealed firearms within the Capitol buildings ; Sens. Randy Smith, R-Tucker, Jay Taylor, R-Taylor, co-sponsors.

— HB 3110, (same as SB 448 introduced Tuesday) to pay for Office of Oil and Gas well inspectors by devoting three-fourths of 1 % of oil and gas severance tax to the office ; Delegate Evan Hansen, D-Monongalia, co-sponsor.

— HB 3113, to require each high school student to complete a one credit course of study in personal finance as a requirement for high school graduation.

— HB 3115, to allow the development of a specialized intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities ; Summers, co-sponsor.

— HB 3118, to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights, including medical care and education.

— HB 3121, the Stop Our Scourge Act, to designate illicit fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction ; Delegate Buck Jennings, R-Preston, sponsor.

— SB 489, to require county boards of education to provide free, discrete access to feminine hygiene products in grades 3 through 12 to female students that do not otherwise have access to the feminine hygiene products.

— SB 494, to create the West Virginia Black Lung Program and granting entitlement for pain and suffering for occupational pneumoconiosis ; Sen. Mike Caputo, D-Marion, lead sponsor.

— SJR 9, the Right to Medical Freedom Amendment, to put before the voters a Constitutional amendment, to ensure the right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine, or prophylactic to not be questioned or interfered with in any manner ; Smith, Taylor, co-sponsors.