---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy"
description: "Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2324"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2324 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/345d9eb2-cd42-45b0-bc4a-b3bcc942d053"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2324&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3b008f989146e608a235abb33d2719f325a452520cae774b09570acfce7653bf"
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 2324 (2019) — Authorizing the acupuncture board to issue certificates to perform auricular acudetox therapy

## 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=HB2324%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2324)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2324%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2324)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2324%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2324)
4. **HB2324 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2324 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2324%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2324)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-11** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-18** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-29** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 1/30/19
- **2019-01-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-01-30** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 56) `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-01** House Message received
- **2019-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-19** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/19/19
- **2019-02-20** Reported by clerk
- **2019-02-20** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 189) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-02-21** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-21** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 247)
- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-21** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-22** House Message received
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-27** To Governor 2/26/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 194, 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/345d9eb2-cd42-45b0-bc4a-b3bcc942d053`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).