---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Family Drug Treatment Court"
description: "Relating to Family Drug Treatment Court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2918"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2918 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly, D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-04"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ec39367-0b39-4822-837d-43592b11abd3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2918&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "eecb39abbe8acaf8e9848375b7cab70b9ca14afa2e621977df7ea9aa3c78c89d"
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 2918 (2021) — Relating to Family Drug Treatment Court

## 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=HB2918%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2918)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2918%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2918)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kelly, D. — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Pack, L. — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04** Originating in House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
- **2021-03-04** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2021-03-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Do pass
- **2021-03-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 357) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-04-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 382) `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-08** 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 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 82, 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/5ec39367-0b39-4822-837d-43592b11abd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).