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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to Good Samaritan law"
+description: "Relating to Good Samaritan law"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2605"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2605 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zatezalo"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-17"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf79a944-b8c2-4a91-b7b4-a2da4facbe35"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2605&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "43a16481dc051007c24a0939652ef871e3141e35c427d64c8019ea551dfab42a"
+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 2605 (2023) — Relating to Good Samaritan law
+
+## 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=hb2605%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2605%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2605%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
+4. **hb2605 s jud am _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2605 s jud am _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
+5. **hb2605 sfa trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2605 sfa trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
+6. **hb2605 sfat trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2605 sfat trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zatezalo — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
+- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Linville — cosponsor (person)
+- Nestor — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-09** By substitute, do pass
+- **2023-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 131) `passage`
+- **2023-02-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading
+- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-02** Committee Amendment Reported
+- **2023-03-02** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 359) `passage`
+- **2023-03-03** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted
+- **2023-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 495)
+- **2023-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-07** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf79a944-b8c2-4a91-b7b4-a2da4facbe35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+