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SB672 - Requiring coverage of home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain Medicaid recipients
Amy Nichole Grady, Rupert W. Phillips, Laura Wakim Chapman
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to require coverage and reimbursement for home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain persons diagnosed with hypertension.
STATUS
Introduced
SR53 - Designating February 27, 2024, as Domestic Violence Awareness Day
Amy Nichole Grady, Patricia Puertas Rucker, Laura Wakim Chapman
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB690 - Establishing WV Agritourism Commission
Patricia Puertas Rucker, Jason Barrett, Laura Wakim Chapman
Last updated 5 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to create a commission on West Virginia Agritourism to review and investigate means of preserving our farmland and growing our agricultural tourism and agricultural economic development and recommend to the Legislature that appropriate legislation be enacted, establishing regulatory and legislative relief to foster the development and growth of Agritourism and successful farms.
STATUS
Passed
SB581 - Requiring correctional facilities to provide free feminine hygiene products
Michael A. Woelfel, Robert H. Plymale, Michael Lynn Caputo
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
STATUS
Introduced
SB593 - Prohibiting ranked choice voting
Patricia Puertas Rucker, Laura Wakim Chapman, Jack David Woodrum
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit ranked choice voting in any election held in West Virginia.
STATUS
Introduced
SB715 - Stop the Bleed Act
Tamejiro Takubo, Laura Wakim Chapman, Vince Deeds
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop the Bleed Act to require implementation of the act in county schools and to permit private donations and funding by the Legislature.
STATUS
Introduced
SB601 - Creating WV Women's Bill of Rights
Amy Nichole Grady, Donna J. Boley, Laura Wakim Chapman
Last updated 7 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB874 - Relating to WV Division of Multimodal Transportation
Glenn Delmas Jeffries, Patrick Stephen Martin, Bill Hamilton
Last updated 5 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB720 - Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act
Laura Wakim Chapman, Jack David Woodrum
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB718 - Ensuring equal financial support to kinship parents and fictive kin
Laura Wakim Chapman
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all financial support presently available to certified foster parents is provided to kinship parents and fictive kin. The barriers and burdens placed upon kinship parents and fictive kin are too onerous.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from West Virginia district SD-001
COMMITTEES
West Virginia Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Laura Wakim Chapman is running as a Democratic candidate for District 91 of the Virginia House of Delegates. Chapman has worked as a professor and educator. She serves on the Falls Church School Board. Chapman is focused on improving public education and healthcare access. She supports increasing teacher pay and expanding Medicaid. Chapman has a PhD in education policy from the University of Maryland. She has lived in Falls Church for over 20 years with her husband and two children.read less
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