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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility"
+description: "Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4257"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4257 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries, D."]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-19"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4257&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "0bdfb3343fe9c21109af782b5af502ae2b753533aff6a6abfbb59d957da9f269"
+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 4257 (2022) — Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility
+
+## 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=HB4257%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4257%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)
+3. **HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4257%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffries, D. — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Tully — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-01-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-01-19** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-26** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 60) `passage`
+- **2022-01-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 61)
+- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
+- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-08** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2022-03-09** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-09** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 400) `passage`
+- **2022-03-09** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2022-03-09** Floor title amendment adopted
+- **2022-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 400)
+- **2022-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 465)
+- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 466)
+- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-11** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 229, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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