---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing different classes of pharmacy technicians"
description: "Establishing different classes of pharmacy technicians"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2849"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2849 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b9c0372-2452-4be1-9261-4289c7ca9c9b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2849&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "51615ae7887eb0b7217086a84afceb4719a639cfaa498436b0ba61081c5784ae"
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 2849 (2019) — Establishing different classes of pharmacy technicians

## 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=HB2849%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2849)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2849%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2849)
3. **HB2849 S H_HR AM _21 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2849 S H_HR AM _21 3-4 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2849%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2849)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-04** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 195) `passage`
- **2019-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-19** House Message received
- **2019-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 452) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** 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. 678)
- **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`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 196, 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/0b9c0372-2452-4be1-9261-4289c7ca9c9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).