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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients"
+description: "Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 650"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 650 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-28"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1499a72-df80-46c0-be08-f38231e9b361"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=650&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "e0213d0b5aeabd728b739154549a7096947ee2b261579a487442673674cd2eec"
+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 650 (2026) — Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients
+
+## 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=sb650%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=650)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb650%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=650)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb650%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=650)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-28** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-28** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-13** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2026-02-13** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-02** On 1st reading
+- **2026-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 336) `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 337)
+- **2026-03-04** Ordered to House
+- **2026-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-05** Reference dispensed
+- **2026-03-05** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 365) `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 366)
+- **2026-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-10** House Message received
+- **2026-03-11** To Governor 3/11/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-02** Became law 4/2/2026
+- **2026-04-02** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
+- **2026-03-14** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1499a72-df80-46c0-be08-f38231e9b361`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+