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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care"
+description: "Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4035"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4035 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-12"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93f20c69-b225-4884-9792-0c90ad406fd8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4035&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "28c3e476bb5bb3170e78b8128d57f6aba6e309871c065491ddacc20893008680"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia HB 4035 (2018) — Creating a legislative coalition to study and report to the Legislature on palliative care
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4035%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4035)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4035%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4035)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4035%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4035)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Summers — primary (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
+- Capito — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Frich — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-12** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-01-24** On 1st reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-25** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-26** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-01-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-01-26** Passed House (Roll No. 20) `passage`
+- **2018-01-26** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-01-29** House Message received
+- **2018-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-01-29** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-05** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 384) `passage`
+- **2018-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 486)
+- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-10** House Message received
+- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 202, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93f20c69-b225-4884-9792-0c90ad406fd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+