---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand use of telemedicine to all medical personnel"
description: "Expand use of telemedicine to all medical personnel"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2024"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2024 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-12"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8d6270f-a81a-4b5a-aa31-8bc040ecd26a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2024&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2a27d95a01cb590295996eeacc00e2cbfafc9891d848b7494ed3dccc869231c4"
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 2024 (2021) — Expand use of telemedicine to all medical personnel

## 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=HB2024%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2024%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2024%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
4. **HB2024 HFA ROWE 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2024 HFA ROWE 3-2 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2024 HFA SUMMERS 3-23 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2024 HFA SUMMERS 3-23 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **HB2024 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2024 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-18 adopted.htm)
7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2024%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2024)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-02** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 71) `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-09** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-19** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-19** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-22** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 161) `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Effective from passage (Roll No. 161)
- **2021-03-22** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-26** Placed at foot of bills on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-26** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 306)
- **2021-03-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 307)
- **2021-03-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-30** House Message received
- **2021-03-30** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 238)
- **2021-03-30** Effective from passage (Roll No. 238)
- **2021-03-30** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-30** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 218, 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/e8d6270f-a81a-4b5a-aa31-8bc040ecd26a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).