---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the admissibility of health care staffing requirements in medical professional liability litigation"
description: "Relating to the admissibility of health care staffing requirements in medical professional liability litigation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20191S"
identifier: "HB 133"
citation: "West Virginia HB 133 (20191S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-05-20"
last_action: "2019-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b644943-9992-4495-b2f0-d4c9232a3569"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=133&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3889f5d17cbaff788dd9f53bc6c957f9fa9fd194bef3cf9a5b177589e82431ab"
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 133 (20191S) — Relating to the admissibility of health care staffing requirements in medical professional liability litigation

## 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=hb133%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=133)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb133%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=133)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **89–9** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **27–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 782)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed House (Roll No. 783) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 784)
- **2019-05-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-05-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 55)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 56) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 56)
- **2019-05-20** Communicated to House
- **2019-05-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-06-17** House received Senate message
- **2019-05-24** To Governor 5/24/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-01** To Governor 5/24/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Approved by Governor 5/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-01** Approved by Governor 5/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-06-17** Approved by Governor 5/28/19 - House Journal
- **2019-10-01** Chapter 33, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b644943-9992-4495-b2f0-d4c9232a3569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).