---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding physician's assistant to list of medical professionals capable of determining if individual lacks capacity"
description: "Adding physician's assistant to list of medical professionals capable of determining if individual lacks capacity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 664"
citation: "West Virginia SB 664 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1abf773-346f-4760-819c-74586587520f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=664&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ae41bea4d3074266277e2f77220e491752a2577e77d95a3af7aa7fa03b1c6b9a"
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 664 (2020) — Adding physician's assistant to list of medical professionals capable of determining if individual lacks capacity

## 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=SB664%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=664)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB664%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=664)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-30** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-30** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 130) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-13** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-02-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Do pass
- **2020-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 660) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - 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 263, 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/e1abf773-346f-4760-819c-74586587520f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).