---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia ABLE Act"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia ABLE Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2848"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2848 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bd97aa1-0b4a-4b15-828b-e06d54badec7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2848&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2028a33b90fb2c37d54c4f69022f865aee459edd5056848d95bd876431181dc2"
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 2848 (2019) — Relating to the West Virginia ABLE 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=HB2848%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2848)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2848%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2848)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2848%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2848)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 182) `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-15** House Message received
- **2019-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-15** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 309)
- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 310) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 219, 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/0bd97aa1-0b4a-4b15-828b-e06d54badec7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).