---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to mandatory reporting procedures of abuse and neglect of adults and children"
description: "Relating to mandatory reporting procedures of abuse and neglect of adults and children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2492"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2492 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69c1460a-e90c-4019-b447-3fe9e8d44301"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2492&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "53f270375e966990d273374f03f3b97dbd24d3c48b0f6313ee0e8ee7ced38ca6"
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 2492 (2019) — Relating to mandatory reporting procedures of abuse and neglect of adults and children

## 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=hb2492%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2492)
2. **HB2492 S H_HR AM _6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2492 S H_HR AM _6 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2492%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2492)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** 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** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 45) `passage`
- **2019-01-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-31** House Message received
- **2019-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 123) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-02-19** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-19** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 212)
- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-19** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-20** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 141, 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/69c1460a-e90c-4019-b447-3fe9e8d44301`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).