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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse"
+description: "Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2123"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2123 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c0838ba-5895-490f-8efb-8cf6cbe5832b"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2123&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d41d693682add9eb0da8e4655092340e2d40425e4349552795b7c99000abf3da"
+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 2123 (2025) — Modifying the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian or custodian for child abuse
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2123%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2123)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2123%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2123)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2123%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2123)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2123%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2123)
+5. **hb2123 hfat mcgeehan 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2123%20hfat%20mcgeehan%204-8%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb2123 s jud am _1 3-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2123%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%203-24%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith, D. — primary (person)
+- Akers — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-20** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-02-24** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 13) `passage`
+- **2025-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 328) `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-09** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 426)
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-10** House Message received
+- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 454)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-30** Chapter 77, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c0838ba-5895-490f-8efb-8cf6cbe5832b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+