---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to providing support for families"
description: "Relating to providing support for families"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2002"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2002 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b66acb0-9c64-4183-ab14-d6e65bbeef85"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2002&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1cef3f9cc935410e401353e363d65d81c620a09e163105696eeb745756a747cc"
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 2002 (2023) — Relating to providing support for families

## 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=hb2002%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2002)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2002%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2002)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2002%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2002)
4. **hb2002 hfat criss 2-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2002 hfat criss 2-9 adopted.htm)
5. **hb2002 s h_hr am _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2002 s h_hr am _1 2-28 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Dillon — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-12** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-13** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 88) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-08** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 89) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Passed House (Roll No. 90) `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-10** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 425) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 581)
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-10** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** To Governor 3/22/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 188, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b66acb0-9c64-4183-ab14-d6e65bbeef85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).