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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting physician's assistants and advanced practice registered nurses issue do-not-resuscitate orders"
+description: "Permitting physician's assistants and advanced practice registered nurses issue do-not-resuscitate orders"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 647"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 647 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-29"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ae28e1a-6ab7-4a3a-a22b-6e6eb3782a2d"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=647&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "74b227653f7260790c1a2327cd981b6588d5f6df83c53c2db456a9d1958dc364"
+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 SB 647 (2020) — Permitting physician's assistants and advanced practice registered nurses issue do-not-resuscitate orders
+
+## 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=SB647%20enr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=647)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB647%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=647)
+3. **SB647 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB647 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **SB647 HFAT HILL 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB647 HFAT HILL 2-17 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Takubo — primary (person)
+- Mann — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-29** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-29** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 128) `passage`
+- **2020-02-12** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 572) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 587)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-18** To Governor 3/18/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 262, 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/4ae28e1a-6ab7-4a3a-a22b-6e6eb3782a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+