West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3298: Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities
Status: Introduced, March 11, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or associated booster shot as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person class.
What the bill says
To amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-14-12, relating to prohibiting colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or booster shots associated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person classes. ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS. §18B-14-12. COVID-19 vaccines and boosters as prerequisite for attendance prohibited. No college or university in West Virginia may require a student to take the COVID-19 vaccine, or booster shot associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, a.
From the introduced text, March 11, 2025:
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-14-12, relating to prohibiting colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or booster shots associated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person classes. ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS. §18B-14-12. COVID-19 vaccines and boosters as prerequisite for attendance prohibited. No college or university in West Virginia may require a student to take the COVID-19 vaccine, or booster shot associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person classes. NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or associated booster shot as a prerequisite for enrolling or attending in-person class. Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.