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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act"
+description: "Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2525"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2525 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-18"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6477361-8df1-495a-87b1-4d6490c55535"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2525&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "5ee0a1de6858354ed6edbaeee9f0f17fd63c64252371e3755ff76f3d9f65105a"
+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 2525 (2019) — Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2525%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2525)
+2. **HB2525 S H_HR AM_16 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2525 S H_HR AM_16 2-25 adopted.htm)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2525%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2525)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Summers — primary (person)
+- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Do pass
+- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 47) `passage`
+- **2019-01-30** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-01-31** House Message received
+- **2019-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-01** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/1/19
+- **2019-03-02** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/2/19
+- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-04** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 352) `passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 480)
+- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-07** House Message received
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-18** To Governor 3/18/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 214, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6477361-8df1-495a-87b1-4d6490c55535`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+