Emily Rice
News Reporter at West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Appalachian Health News Reporter @wvpublicnews Contact: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
Lawmakers came up one bill short on funding tobacco cessation and prevention programs in West Virginia in the final hours of the 2025 session. In 2023, then-Attorney General Patrick Morrisey settled with Juul Labs, an e-cigarette company, for $7.9 million in a lawsuit alleging the company was marketing products to underage users in West Virginia.
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1 week ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
Lauren’s Law passed the House of Delegates Friday with only one lawmaker voting against its passage. Senate Bill 196 would raise criminal penalties for drug trafficking offenses, and is named after Lauren Cole, a 26-year-old Morgantown resident who died after ingesting drugs laced with fentanyl. Cole’s parents were present in the Senate when the bill passed that chamber with Sen. Joey Garcia the only vote against its passage.
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2 weeks ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
This week, the state’s health department announced updates to its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP). Each year from June to October, eligible WIC participants are issued FMNP benefits in addition to their regular WIC benefits. These benefits can be used to buy fresh, unprepared fruits, vegetables and herbs from state-approved farmers or farmers’ markets.
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2 weeks ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
After receiving messages from the Senate and committees and passing two resolutions, members of the West Virginia House of Delegates moved to have each bill up for passage be read in full, a measure lawmakers use to give more time to hash out legislative issues. Delegates passed Senate Bill 565 without discussion or debate after having it read in full.
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2 weeks ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
During a Monday afternoon meeting of the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee, religious and philosophical exemptions to school-entry vaccination were amended into House Bill 2776, which would require the Department of Health (DH) to report positive Alpha Gal tests to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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In the House, delegates made a procedural move to read each bill up for passage in full and debated several amendments. https://t.co/vt3ddJWhGV
A measure to allow exemptions to school entry vaccination that failed to pass the House of Delegates was resurrected in a Senate Health committee Monday afternoon. https://t.co/rV1umwTd6s
The rule was aimed at reducing miner inhalation of silica dust, which has been shown to worsen cases of black lung disease and cause an earlier onset of the disease in younger miners. By @tatecurtis https://t.co/f7O7a4Yn8O