---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility"
description: "Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4257"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4257 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries, D."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4257&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0bdfb3343fe9c21109af782b5af502ae2b753533aff6a6abfbb59d957da9f269"
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 4257 (2022) — Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility

## 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=HB4257%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4257%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)
3. **HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4257%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4257)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffries, D. — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 60) `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 61)
- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-09** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 400) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-09** Floor title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 400)
- **2022-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 465)
- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 466)
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-11** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 229, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).