West Virginia
Sealed: 1941
Access Status: Sealed
- Court order with good cause and usually birthparent consent
- State-operated mutual consent registry with mandatory counseling
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, Bastard Nation is linking our individual state pages to ARLC state access law links and summaries. In addition. our state pages include information specific to Bastard Nation actions and activities in each state and about current OBC access.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
- 2026 Legislation HB1969 (OBC)
- 2025 Legislation HB3076 (OBC)
- 2024 Legislation: HB4815 and SB153 (OBC)
- 2023 Legislation: HB2361; SB470 (OBC); HB3559 (SHBB)
- 2022 Legislation: SB55; HB2943 (records access)
- 2021 Legislation: SB 60 (OBC)l HB2943 (records access)
- 2020 Legislation: AB579/SB25 (OBC); HB4793 (Safe Haven Baby Boxes)
- 2019 Legislation SB25
- 2018 Legislation: H2313/S300
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LINKS
2024
2023
- West Virginia HB3559 Baby Box Bill Keeps that Train Rollin’ All Night Long, SSHBBN, February 27, 2023
- West Virginia HB470. You’re Redacted! Bastard Nation, March 2, 2023
- Letter of Opposition to SB470,from Barbara Flaherty Fuller to House Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2023
- Letter of Opposition to SB470,from Barbara Flaherty Fuller to House Judiciary Committee, March 2, 2023
- Emergency Action Alert: West Virginia SB470, March 4, 2023
- Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition to SB470 to West Virginia House Members,.March 5,2023
2019
- Bastard Nation Action Alert: West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee. SB300 OBC access. Restricts and discriminates. Vote No or Amend to cover all, not some, February 22, 2019
- West Virginia SB300 restricted OBC access: Bastardette’s personal letter to Senate Judiciary–please vote NO!, Daily Bastardette, February 21, 2019
Updated January 30, 2026
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