---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to family planning and child spacing"
description: "Relating to family planning and child spacing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 288"
citation: "West Virginia SB 288 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03acc2b4-d363-4d98-b6a1-986e9002c356"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=288&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3beb7c254fdc6ab97f784e51264cd6a3e4c6854e645d6cc1e94952911322b684"
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 288 (2020) — Relating to family planning and child spacing

## 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=SB288%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=288)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB288%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=288)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB288%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=288)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB288%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=288)
5. **SB288 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB288 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm)
6. **SB288 HFAT HILL 2-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB288 HFAT HILL  2-24 adopted.htm)
7. **SB288 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB288 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-5 adopted.htm)
8. **sb288 sfa _1 tarr 2-13 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/sb288 sfa _1 tarr 2-13 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **78–18** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **86–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tarr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Children and Families then Finance
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To Children and Families
- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2020-02-10** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2020-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2020-02-13** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/13/20 with right to amend
- **2020-02-14** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** Passed Senate (Roll No. 143) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 561) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 536)
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 753)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-18** To Governor 3/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 260, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03acc2b4-d363-4d98-b6a1-986e9002c356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).