---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the establishment of a full-time Dementia Services Director position."
description: "Relating to the establishment of a full-time Dementia Services Director position."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2575"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2575 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7ecdb3e-8ade-41b1-a714-8d91a72b3cc8"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2575&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "485dc8cc8fca70a6d6fdc04c0b95d802c0e4cb2b6c9b3c6b3eccf7c28b4ef880"
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 2575 (2025) — Relating to the establishment of a full-time Dementia Services Director position.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2575%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2575)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2575%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2575)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2575%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2575)
4. **hb2575 s hhr am _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2575%20s%20hhr%20am%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Petitto — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-26** Do pass
- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 270) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 477) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 577)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2025-04-30** Became law 4/30/2025
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 152, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7ecdb3e-8ade-41b1-a714-8d91a72b3cc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).