---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2427"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2427 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-13"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94d26a46-9072-436c-a71e-71bbb2f8e594"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2427&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a2ba972e545a653d8636849e326a5e137aa8ba8e64b1c409807e5f1c7eb4c950"
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 2427 (2021) — Authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules

## 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=HB2427%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2427)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2427%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2427)
3. **HB2427 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2427 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2427 S JUD AMT _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2427 S JUD AMT _1 3-26 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2427 SFA _1 TRUMP 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2427 SFA _1 TRUMP 4-1 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2427%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2427)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** By substitute, 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. 263) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 264)
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `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`
- **2021-04-02** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2021-04-02** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-02** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-05** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 305) `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 305)
- **2021-04-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-06** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 436)
- **2021-04-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 437)
- **2021-04-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-06** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** 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 179, 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/94d26a46-9072-436c-a71e-71bbb2f8e594`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).