---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to foster care"
description: "Relating to foster care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2010"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2010 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kessinger"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 54
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/497168cd-5958-4660-9847-afa1511c5ad8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2010&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "087bb6e7d62fc95663bb7fc969edcb0b46ded36406fe418ac76bb9a0e329dd8a"
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 2010 (2019) — Relating to foster care

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No 51)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00051.pdf)
2. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2010%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2010)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2010%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2010)
4. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2010%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2010)
5. **HB2010 BLAIR AMT _1 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2010 BLAIR AMT _1 3-8 adopted.htm)
6. **HB2010 S FIN AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2010 S FIN AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
7. **HB2010 S H_HR AM _18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2010 S H_HR AM _18 adopted.htm)
8. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2010%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2010)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **66–31** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **77–20** (pass) · lower
- HFA SUMMERS & KESSINGER #1 — **54–45** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **67–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kessinger — primary (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-17** To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then Health and Human Resources
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To House Senior, Children, and Family Issues `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
- **2019-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-01-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** Amendment adopted (Roll No 51)
- **2019-01-30** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-30** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 55) `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-01** House Message received
- **2019-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-01** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2019-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Health Committee Amendment Reported
- **2019-03-07** Finance Amendments to Health committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** Lindsay Amendment to Health committee amendment rejected (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** Health Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 424) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 654)
- **2019-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 655)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House changed effective date
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 543)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/497168cd-5958-4660-9847-afa1511c5ad8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).