---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating tax on certain acute care hospitals"
description: "Creating tax on certain acute care hospitals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 546"
citation: "West Virginia SB 546 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5993907c-a1e7-4519-992c-05f28ea63f39"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=546&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "51f24711069aa5315af88d1cfde2c2b008ed8690d13c6b742eaf2750229d4b4f"
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 SB 546 (2019) — Creating tax on certain acute care hospitals

## 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=SB546%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=546)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB546%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=546)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB546%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=546)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2019 — **91–6** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **84–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Takubo — primary (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-07** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 206) `passage`
- **2019-02-23** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 206)
- **2019-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 488) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 489)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 389)
- **2019-03-07** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 389)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 246, 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/5993907c-a1e7-4519-992c-05f28ea63f39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).