West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3301: Prohibiting laws requiring person to receive or use medical products
Status: Introduced, March 11, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that no law may require a person to receive or use a medical product and to ensure that there will be no penalties associated with refusing the medical product or refusing to disclose whether the product has been used or not.
What the bill says
To amend and reenact §16-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to ensuring that no law may require a person to receive or use a medical product; and ensuring there will be no penalties imposed, nor benefit denied, due to refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether a medical product has been used or not. Article 3. Prevention and Control of Communicable and Other Infectious Diseases. §16-3-1. State Director of Health Authority to quarantine and to enforce regulations; State Board of Health Authority to issue regulations to control infectious or conta.
From the introduced text, March 11, 2025:
A BILL to amend and reenact §16-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to ensuring that no law may require a person to receive or use a medical product; and ensuring there will be no penalties imposed, nor benefit denied, due to refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether a medical product has been used or not. Article 3. Prevention and Control of Communicable and Other Infectious Diseases. §16-3-1. State Director of Health Authority to quarantine and to enforce regulations; State Board of Health Authority to issue regulations to control infectious or contagious diseases. (a) The state director of health is empowered to establish and strictly maintain quarantine at such places as he may deem proper and forbid and prevent the assembling of the people in any place, when the state director of health or any county or municipal health officer deems that the public health and safety so demand, and the state board of health may adopt rules and regulations to obstruct and prevent the introduction or spread of smallpox or other communicable or infectious diseases into or within the State, and the state director of health shall have the power to enforce these regulations by detention and arrest, if necessary. The state director of health shall have power to enter into any …