---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting veterinarians from the requirements of controlled substance monitoring"
description: "Exempting veterinarians from the requirements of controlled substance monitoring"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2028"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2028 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-19"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/638a88e3-4e75-4fdd-ac4f-5e9ecafd7bb8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2028&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ff63bc5c094ce8cb083d15e90f4be39c217919ce4014e47fdda55df9ab7d376f"
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 2028 (2021) — Exempting veterinarians from the requirements of controlled substance monitoring

## 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=HB2028%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2028)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2028%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2028)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Pack, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-19** Originating in House Health and Human Resources
- **2021-03-19** Do pass
- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 261) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-02** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 303) `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-05** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-05** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-14** To Governor 4/14/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-19** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 63, 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/638a88e3-4e75-4fdd-ac4f-5e9ecafd7bb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).