---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Planning Access Act"
description: "Family Planning Access Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2583"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2583 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/084fe6ea-bec9-4086-b713-8bf9b4291ac3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2583&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b991842fecf6be0ec13bc8bdb1df20fabc74d2b260ab11b73248ccb21951a83c"
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 2583 (2019) — Family Planning Access Act

## 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=HB2583%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2583)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2583%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2583)
3. **HB2583 S H_HR AM _14 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2583 S H_HR AM _14 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2583 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2583 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-8 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2583%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2583)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **87–10** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Doyle — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Staggers — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-22** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Passed House (Roll No. 119) `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-12** House Message received
- **2019-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2019-03-08** Rucker Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 475) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 699)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `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 215, 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/084fe6ea-bec9-4086-b713-8bf9b4291ac3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).