---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to health care costs"
description: "Relating to health care costs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2005"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2005 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries, D."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8df0cbd-a684-4e00-ab18-77fd1abeb962"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2005&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "335dc395f580134ad5279c04ebf765d8d50f5aa9e9c4d8c8dc49195ccd6a063a"
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 2005 (2021) — Relating to health care costs

## 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=HB2005%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2005)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2005%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2005)
3. **HB2005 S H_HR AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2005 S H_HR AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2005 SFA _1 MARONEY 4-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2005 SFA _1 MARONEY 4-5 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2005 SFAT _1 MARONEY 4-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2005 SFAT _1 MARONEY 4-5 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2005%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2005)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffries, D. — primary (person)
- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 15) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-02-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-05** Laid over on 2nd reading 4/5/21
- **2021-04-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2021-04-06** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-06** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-07** Laid over on 3rd reading 4/7/21
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 374) `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 531)
- **2021-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-09** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 162, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8df0cbd-a684-4e00-ab18-77fd1abeb962`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).