West Virginia
West Virginia: bills from both sides, with enacted laws, hearings, court cases and the legislators who sponsor the bills.
Bills
236 bills: 170 Anti-LGBTQ+, 66 Pro-LGBTQ+. 8 are enacted (8 Anti-LGBTQ+, 0 Pro-LGBTQ+). “Enacted” is the status this tracker records for the bill.
| Status | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Failed | 228 | 162 | 66 |
| Enacted | 8 | 8 | 0 |
Most recent bills
- WV SB 1083 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 1039 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 921 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV HB 5440 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 775 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 687 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 630 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 629 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 590 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- WV SB 507 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
Titles, summaries and tags are on each bill's page. The Bills list shows them for the bills of West Virginia: all, Anti-LGBTQ+ or Pro-LGBTQ+.
Bills by year
Introduced each year
Enacted, by the year introduced
- Anti-LGBTQ+
- Pro-LGBTQ+
A bill is counted in the year of its session, and an enacted bill in the year it was introduced. A year with no bill in the data has no column.
Show the numbers
| Year | Introduced | Introduced, Anti-LGBTQ+ | Introduced, Pro-LGBTQ+ | Enacted | Enacted, Anti-LGBTQ+ | Enacted, Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 36 | 34 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 55 | 46 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Topics and tags
A bill can have more than one topic or tag, so the rows add up to more than the number of bills.
Topics
| Topic | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity documents | 17 | 16 | 1 |
| Bathrooms & facilities | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Sports participation | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Youth gender-affirming care | 29 | 29 | 0 |
| Medicaid & public funding for care | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Prisons, jails & detention | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Schools & curriculum | 17 | 14 | 3 |
| DEI & bias training | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Drag & public expression | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Book bans & censorship | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Marriage, family & custody | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| Nondiscrimination protections | 56 | 9 | 47 |
| Hate crimes | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Religious exemptions | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Conversion therapy | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Repealing or reversing LGBTQ-related law | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Symbolic resolutions & recognition | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Government process, funding & data | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Tags
| Tag | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination | 41 | 0 | 41 |
| Housing Nondiscrimination | 40 | 0 | 40 |
| Employment Nondiscrimination | 37 | 0 | 37 |
| Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Constitutional Amendment | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| Censorship: Drag Ban | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Hate Crime Classification | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| DEI Ban: Colleges | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| DEI Ban: EMDT | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| Don't Say Systemic Biases: Colleges | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| End Legal Recognition | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| Sports Ban: K12 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
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Hearings
Hearings listed for this jurisdiction, newest first. Each hearing's page links to the official video where there is one.
| Date | Chamber | Committee |
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Legislators
The sponsors of the bills listed here, with the number of those bills each one sponsors.
| Name | Party | Role | District | Bills sponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Azinger | R | Senator | SD-003 | 23 |
| Patricia Rucker | R | Senator | SD-016 | 21 |
| Mark Maynard | R | Senator | SD-006 | 16 |
| Geoff Foster | R | Representative | HD-020 | 15 |
| Jonathan Pinson | R | Representative | HD-017 | 15 |
| Kathie Crouse | R | Representative | HD-019 | 15 |
| Robert Karnes | R | Senator | SD-011 | 15 |
| Chris Pritt | R | Representative | HD-053 | 14 |
| Margitta Mazzocchi | R | Representative | HD-031 | 14 |
| Jay Taylor | R | Senator | SD-014 | 13 |
Party as recorded: D Democratic, R Republican, I Independent; other codes are shown as recorded.
Court cases
No court cases are listed for this jurisdiction.
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How this page is sourced
Bill data comes from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0 and used here in modified form. Outcome coding, category tags and the summaries are the Trans Data Initiative team's, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 with credit.