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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "West Virginia health care workforce sustainability study"
+description: "West Virginia health care workforce sustainability study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4434"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4434 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-20"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c8ac3a1-60d9-4961-aced-6553785d7b3c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4434&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b460e26d86893a47e92be52b76d76a05be5040c4ac3c14420c98fddd086d61ac"
+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 4434 (2020) — West Virginia health care workforce sustainability study
+
+## 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=HB4434%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4434)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4434%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4434)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4434%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4434)
+4. **HB4434 HFA HILL 2-3 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4434 HFA HILL 2-3 _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **HB4434 HFA HILL 2-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4434 HFA HILL 2-4 _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **HB4434 S H_HR AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4434 S H_HR AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
+7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4434%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4434)
+8. **Second Engrossment Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4434%20SUB%20ENG2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4434)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Summers — primary (person)
+- Angelucci — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Cowles — cosponsor (person)
+- Diserio — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Swartzmiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-20** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-20** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-01-29** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2020-01-30** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-31** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/3/20
+- **2020-02-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-03** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2020-02-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-04** Passed House (Roll No. 89) `passage`
+- **2020-02-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-05** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-05** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-02** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 397) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 472)
+- **2020-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-04** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 281, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c8ac3a1-60d9-4961-aced-6553785d7b3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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