---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act"
description: "Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2525"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2525 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6477361-8df1-495a-87b1-4d6490c55535"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2525&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5ee0a1de6858354ed6edbaeee9f0f17fd63c64252371e3755ff76f3d9f65105a"
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 2525 (2019) — Tobacco Cessation Therapy Access Act

## 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=hb2525%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2525)
2. **HB2525 S H_HR AM_16 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2525 S H_HR AM_16 2-25 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2525%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2525)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Do pass
- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 47) `passage`
- **2019-01-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-31** House Message received
- **2019-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/1/19
- **2019-03-02** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/2/19
- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 352) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 480)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-18** To Governor 3/18/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 214, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6477361-8df1-495a-87b1-4d6490c55535`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).