---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to physician assistants"
description: "Relating generally to physician assistants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20171S"
identifier: "SB 1014"
citation: "West Virginia SB 1014 (20171S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-24"
last_action: "2017-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdfa5581-5f31-4249-a9f1-06d6117d49c1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=1014&year=2017&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "42e0894131f01595b19e4c6dc6d7b51dcc2b8a7247518ee02e8a2b6eb2f6f827"
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 1014 (20171S) — Relating generally to physician assistants

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1014%20enr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=1X&i=1014)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1014%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=1X&i=1014)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **87–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2017-05-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-05-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-24** Immediate consideration
- **2017-05-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 20)
- **2017-05-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2017-05-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2017-05-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 21) `passage`
- **2017-05-24** Ordered to House
- **2017-05-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-05-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-06** Immediate consideration
- **2017-06-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2017-06-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2017-06-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2017-06-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2017-06-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2017-06-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2017-06-08** Passed House (Roll No. 639) `passage`
- **2017-06-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2017-06-09** House Message received
- **2017-06-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 32)
- **2017-06-09** Communicated to House
- **2017-06-09** Completed legislative action
- **2017-06-09** House received Senate message
- **2017-06-13** To Governor 6/13/17 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-13** To Governor 6/13/17 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-19** Approved by Governor 6/19/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-26** Approved by Governor 6/1917 - Senate Journal
- **2017-06-26** Approved by Governor 6/19/17 - House Journal
- **2017-07-20** Chapter 3, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdfa5581-5f31-4249-a9f1-06d6117d49c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).