---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to COVID-19 immunizations requirements for employment in the public and private sectors"
description: "Relating to COVID-19 immunizations requirements for employment in the public and private sectors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20213S"
identifier: "HB 335"
citation: "West Virginia HB 335 (20213S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-10-13"
last_action: "2021-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ea8a0ae-82f7-4626-b51c-f9f872cd6398"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=335&year=2021&sessiontype=3X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "451c549229e507d3a98188eb397ef7b60d123a01f2729710e68c309994d13dcb"
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 335 (20213S) — Relating to COVID-19 immunizations requirements for employment in the public and private sectors

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB335%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=335)
2. **HB335 SFA _1 Tarr 10-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/3X/floor_amends/HB335 SFA _1 Tarr 10-18 adopted.htm)
3. **HB335 SFAT _1 Tarr 10-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/3X/floor_amends/HB335 SFAT _1 Tarr 10-18 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb335%20intr.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=335)

## Votes

- Passage — **17–16** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-10-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-10-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-13** Do pass
- **2021-10-13** Motion bill be committed to Health and Human Resources committee rejected (Roll No. 762)
- **2021-10-13** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-10-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-14** Constitutional Rule Suspension Rejected (Roll No. 824)
- **2021-10-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-10-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-15** Motion for previous question rejected (Roll No. 833)
- **2021-10-15** Passed House (Roll No. 834) `passage`
- **2021-10-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 835)
- **2021-10-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-10-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-10-15** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-15** Committee reference dispensed
- **2021-10-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-18** On 2nd reading
- **2021-10-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-19** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2021-10-19** Stollings floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 50)
- **2021-10-19** Tarr floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-10-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-19** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 51) `passage`
- **2021-10-19** Senate rejects effective date (Roll No. 52)
- **2021-10-19** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-10-20** House received Senate message
- **2021-10-20** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 837)
- **2021-10-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-10-20** House Message received
- **2021-10-20** Completed legislative action
- **2021-10-22** To Governor 10/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10-22-20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-22** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10-22-21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-11-02** Chapter 32, Acts, 3rd Extraordinary Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ea8a0ae-82f7-4626-b51c-f9f872cd6398`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).