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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act"
+description: "Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3277"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3277 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hite"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-03-10"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cddd1a9-b543-408c-8326-0832a1b4beaf"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3277&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "4be6e8f76401b7b285bcfce5cf69c330e0b5bd6fb085199f1f852064589c8209"
+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 3277 (2025) — Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3277%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3277%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3277%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
+4. **hb3277 s hhr am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3277%20s%20hhr%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **92–2** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hite — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Do pass
+- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 173) `passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 174)
+- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 376) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 610)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 140, 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/9cddd1a9-b543-408c-8326-0832a1b4beaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+