---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting certain portions of certified nurse aide training to be provided through distance learning technologies"
description: "Permitting certain portions of certified nurse aide training to be provided through distance learning technologies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4178"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4178 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12463b7f-368e-4c8e-9e75-daaaf361e72d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4178&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0997de5b0d64dd2a377c35636d009cea793537be9142ca4da447e0022c759ae6"
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 4178 (2018) — Permitting certain portions of certified nurse aide training to be provided through distance learning technologies

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4178%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4178)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4178%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4178)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Longstreth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-18** To Education then Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-18** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources
- **2018-01-26** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Do pass
- **2018-02-05** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-06** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-07** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 61) `passage`
- **2018-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-08** House Message received
- **2018-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-08** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 360) `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 203, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12463b7f-368e-4c8e-9e75-daaaf361e72d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).