---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to vendors paying a single annual fee for a permit issued by a local health department"
description: "Relating to vendors paying a single annual fee for a permit issued by a local health department"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2945"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2945 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86cba46e-b2f6-418f-9a41-00fe638afad8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2945&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "75e118fcb474cf3424d2c913584dafdacb2af33df1e952008c5fa5da7b254fda"
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 2945 (2019) — Relating to vendors paying a single annual fee for a permit issued by a local health department

## 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=HB2945%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2945)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2945%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2945)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2945%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2945)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miley — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Lavender-Bowe — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-08** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 330) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass `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`
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 512) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **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`
- **2019-03-09** 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 220, 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/86cba46e-b2f6-418f-9a41-00fe638afad8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).