---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to practice of medical corporations"
description: "Relating generally to practice of medical corporations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 653"
citation: "West Virginia SB 653 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stollings"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83bc2841-f988-411b-aa2c-d1fdc2365300"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=653&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fdad88be47ac7fc46a0127bf165f0b1c83362af76d7c2751bf0cffb937247762"
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 653 (2019) — Relating generally to practice of medical corporations

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB653%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=653)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB653%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=653)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB653%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=653)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB653%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=653)
5. **SB653 SFA _AMENDMENT 11 MARONEY 2-22 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB653 SFA _AMENDMENT 11 MARONEY 2-22 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stollings — primary (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-23** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 254) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 492) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 391)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 190, 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/83bc2841-f988-411b-aa2c-d1fdc2365300`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).