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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requiring hospitals to staff qualified personnel to perform sexual assault forensic exams"
+description: "Requiring hospitals to staff qualified personnel to perform sexual assault forensic exams"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 89"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 89 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woelfel"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb90606e-701f-4a7a-a0ce-05d71e2ad40c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=89&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "104e43a13066e2ca433dfeae13cd852aea9736299955cb90e94a2a8eb0f729dd"
+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 89 (2023) — Requiring hospitals to staff qualified personnel to perform sexual assault forensic exams
+
+## 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=sb89%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=89)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb89%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=89)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb89%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=89)
+4. **sb89 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb89 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **sb89 hfat summers 2-20 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb89 hfat summers 2-20 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woelfel — primary (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-18** Committee substitute reported
+- **2023-01-19** On 1st reading
+- **2023-01-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-20** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-01-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-23** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 61) `passage`
+- **2023-01-23** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-17** Placed at foot of bills on second reading
+- **2023-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-17** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 182) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-02-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-21** House Message received
+- **2023-02-21** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 219)
+- **2023-02-21** Communicated to House
+- **2023-02-21** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-02-21** House received Senate message
+- **2023-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-24** To Governor 2/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 275, 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/bb90606e-701f-4a7a-a0ce-05d71e2ad40c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+