---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic"
description: "Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 239"
citation: "West Virginia SB 239 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-16"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba67873c-0504-4699-9990-87e742726e37"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=239&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "48e6bf5b194ac0b3f56e934d6628d22fab799229c1aebb6e75fb1384f324d4f6"
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 239 (2023) — Requiring Commissioner of Bureau for Behavioral Health to engage certain providers and leaders to study homeless demographic

## 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=sb239%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=239)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb239%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=239)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb239%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=239)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Azinger — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-16** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-16** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2023-01-26** On 1st reading
- **2023-01-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-27** On 2nd reading
- **2023-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** On 3rd reading
- **2023-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-30** Passed Senate (Roll No. 89) `passage`
- **2023-01-30** Ordered to House
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Health and Human Resources
- **2023-01-31** To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Do pass
- **2023-02-10** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2023-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 149) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-15** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-16** House Message received
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/22023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-21** To Governor 2/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 186, 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/ba67873c-0504-4699-9990-87e742726e37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).