---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to involuntary hospitalization, competency, and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of certain crimes"
description: "Relating to involuntary hospitalization, competency, and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of certain crimes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 702"
citation: "West Virginia SB 702 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Crime", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/781594dc-3899-426f-bf79-b318d5e1f307"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=702&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5720a1afc725ac7d4d0ac0ff82739361182df291000948fd2c278d10d04ec7ae"
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 SB 702 (2021) — Relating to involuntary hospitalization, competency, and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of certain crimes

## 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=SB702%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=702)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB702%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=702)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB702%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=702)
4. **SB702 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/SB702 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-29** Immediate consideration
- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 276) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Ordered to House
- **2021-04-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-04-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-09** Placed on House Calendar
- **2021-04-10** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2021-04-10** Placed on Special Calender
- **2021-04-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 629) `passage`
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 479)
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-20** To Governor 4/20/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/20/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/20/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 88, 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/781594dc-3899-426f-bf79-b318d5e1f307`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).