---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to confidential childcare records"
description: "Relating to confidential childcare records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2016"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2016 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aef468e-7954-4b1f-8dd4-fb2908e7669d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2016&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "317953a0bdbdbec2ddb3063b93fd68a0e490038d1e8e5260dc4a033ff2dd7342"
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 2016 (2023) — Relating to confidential childcare records

## 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=hb2016%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2016)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2016%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2016)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2016%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2016)
4. **hb2016 s h_hr amt _2 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2016 s h_hr amt _2 3-7 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-11** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 253) `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 450) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 626)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** To Governor 3/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 61, 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/8aef468e-7954-4b1f-8dd4-fb2908e7669d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).