---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting certain medical practices"
description: "Prohibiting certain medical practices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2007"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2007 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 53
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e2b4811-d7a3-4be8-9d48-994b2e8c6f9c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2007&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6c83f62ce9bae7f6dd19ae19b02e4ad4938d9f29415d40d3872b7bedd8d36932"
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 2007 (2023) — Prohibiting certain medical practices

## 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=hb2007%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2007)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2007%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2007)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2007%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2007)
4. **Takubo floor amendment adopted (Roll No. 568)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2023/RS/votes/senate/03-10-0568.pdf)
5. **hb2007 hfa householder 3-11 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2007 hfa householder 3-11 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2007 s h_hr am _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2007 s h_hr am _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
7. **hb2007 s jud amt _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2007 s jud amt _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
8. **hb2007 sfa takubo _2 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2007 sfa takubo _2 3-10 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)
- Adkins — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Coop-Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- Devault — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — 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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2023-01-20** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 68) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-02** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 69) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-02-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** Passed House (Roll No. 71) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-06** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
- **2023-03-10** Deferred until foot of 2nd reading
- **2023-03-10** Deferred until foot of bills
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** HHR committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Takubo floor amendment adopted (Roll No. 568)
- **2023-03-10** Rucker floor amendments reported
- **2023-03-10** Rucker floor amendments not germane
- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 569) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Judiciary committee title amendment adopted
- **2023-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 752)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 622)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **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 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 233, 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/5e2b4811-d7a3-4be8-9d48-994b2e8c6f9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).