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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requiring hospital publish notification prior to facility closure regarding patient medical records"
+description: "Requiring hospital publish notification prior to facility closure regarding patient medical records"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 846"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 846 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56f3f4c5-9cf6-4c46-a13c-5aa5c08d4d41"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=846&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "29998b05d3fa413d3a1dc42bde0566b9c1fb41ab26a98219ffe771933b6bd04b"
+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 846 (2020) — Requiring hospital publish notification prior to facility closure regarding patient medical records
+
+## 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=sb846%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=846)
+2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb846%20org.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=846)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **89–9** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **92–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maroney — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Unger — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-24** Originating in Senate Health and Human Resources
+- **2020-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 335) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 335)
+- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-02** Do pass
+- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 591) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 592)
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - 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 270, 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/56f3f4c5-9cf6-4c46-a13c-5aa5c08d4d41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+