---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to telemedicine prescription practice requirements and exceptions"
description: "Relating generally to telemedicine prescription practice requirements and exceptions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2947"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2947 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32a35ab7-dbf5-4b22-980f-09025abe9179"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2947&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "43879c975dfc39553998c81f1a6bfa3a9390731da9af95d6e715f05e5bc80a43"
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 2947 (2019) — Relating generally to telemedicine prescription practice requirements and exceptions

## 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=HB2947%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2947)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2947%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2947)
3. **HB2947 SFA _29 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2947 SFA _29 3-8 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2947%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2947)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- HFA STAGGERS 2-14 #1 — **19–80** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-08** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-14** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 199) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 208) `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-20** House Message received
- **2019-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendments `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 amendments withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2019-03-08** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 502) `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. 714)
- **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`
- **2019-03-09** 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 197, 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/32a35ab7-dbf5-4b22-980f-09025abe9179`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).