---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to licensure of hospitals"
description: "Relating to licensure of hospitals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 767"
citation: "West Virginia SB 767 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-13"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0292bdb-d1db-43e8-8207-3452b827b682"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=767&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "97ef5f8c12d0211ec351bd61d15075d42fb07df1e21b97475aefa33e4a57c0cc"
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 767 (2020) — Relating to licensure of hospitals

## 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=SB767%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=767)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB767%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=767)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–30** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA ROBINSON 3-2 — **33–59** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maroney — primary (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-02-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2020-02-19** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Do pass
- **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** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 537) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 583) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** 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 268, 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/a0292bdb-d1db-43e8-8207-3452b827b682`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).