---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to procurement of child placing services"
description: "Relating to procurement of child placing services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2260"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2260 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack, J."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 53
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64a97bd9-9b46-4d88-a83f-b224327e6199"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2260&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c5700d9cb11880aab984da9c1517048e42268a9c37e80649678e6ec8e9726541"
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 2260 (2021) — Relating to procurement of child placing services

## 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=HB2260%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2260)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2260%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2260)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2260%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2260)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pack, J. — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — 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 then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 50) `passage`
- **2021-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-26** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-27** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-27** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/27/21
- **2021-03-29** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/29/21
- **2021-03-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-30** Passed Senate (Roll No. 258) `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-30** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-31** Senate requests return of bill from House
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-31** House acceded to request for return of measure (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-31** House Message received
- **2021-03-31** Senate reconsidered effective date
- **2021-03-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 284)
- **2021-03-31** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-31** House concurred in Senate effective date (Voice)
- **2021-03-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 389)
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-31** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-01** House Message received
- **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 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 54, 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/64a97bd9-9b46-4d88-a83f-b224327e6199`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).