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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to abortion"
+description: "Relating to abortion"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 552"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 552 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-02-02"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3b87ecb-4658-483d-a8c7-a9d97ff9bcb7"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=552&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "99de8dbb0051efd21a4abd6b967184914008dcacd42917a67e39b15919677f00"
+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 552 (2023) — Relating to abortion
+
+## 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=sb552%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=552)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb552%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=552)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb552%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=552)
+4. **sb552 hfa summers 3-10 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb552 hfa summers 3-10 _2 adopted.htm)
+5. **sb552 hfat summers 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb552 hfat summers 3-10 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stover — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-02** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-02-02** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-02** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-25** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
+- **2023-02-25** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2023-02-27** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-01** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2023-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 333) `passage`
+- **2023-03-01** Ordered to House
+- **2023-03-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-03-02** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-10** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 715)
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 716) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 717)
+- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 603)
+- **2023-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 603)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **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`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 253, 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/a3b87ecb-4658-483d-a8c7-a9d97ff9bcb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+