US state regulation
West Virginia
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for West Virginia - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 28/100 Below median
- Regulations tracked
- 2 Below median
- Enacted into law
- 2
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 2 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
West Virginia sits in the lower tracker-score band - 2 enacted regulations across 2 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 28/100, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 28/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 2
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 2
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
West Virginia legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from West Virginia's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 2 Tracked rows in archive
- 2 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 28/100 Portal tracker score
- #36 Of 51 by volume
- #36 Of 51 by tracker score
- Arizona Nearest volume peer 2 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
West Virginia's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: West Virginia is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
West Virginia enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 2015
Policy coverage
West Virginia enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from West Virginia's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
West Virginia regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining West Virginia's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive West Virginia's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
54/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 2 tracked
57th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- D 28/100
35th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with West Virginia
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for West Virginia (LIGHT · LOWER · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER QUIET WORKER-LED
Arizona · LIGHT
Arizona tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than West Virginia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Louisiana · LIGHT
Louisiana tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than West Virginia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Indiana · LIGHT
Indiana tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than West Virginia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Iowa · LIGHT
Iowa tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than West Virginia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Delaware (MID score pole)
Delaware sits near West Virginia on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
West Virginia's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (1 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in West Virginia
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) West Virginia state-rule registry · 2025 West Virginia: 2 tracked · 2 enacted · tracker 28/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are West Virginia's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.