---
type: "Bill"
title: "WVU to create a Parkinson’s disease registry"
description: "WVU to create a Parkinson’s disease registry"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4276"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4276 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b50e781b-9173-4634-957a-8410462a9c73"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4276&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bc29412025e5a9feb83ffe87a0eb318e316ca6690b2e3deb0b895fd75b1f3612"
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 4276 (2022) — WVU to create a Parkinson’s disease registry

## 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=HB4276%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4276)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4276%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4276)
3. **HB4276 S H_HR AM _1 2-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4276 S H_HR AM _1 2-3 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4276 S H_HR AMT _1 2-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4276 S H_HR AMT _1 2-3 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4276%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4276)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — 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`
- **2022-01-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Passed House (Roll No. 45) `passage`
- **2022-01-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 46)
- **2022-01-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 105) `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 105)
- **2022-02-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-02-15** House received Senate message
- **2022-02-15** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 130)
- **2022-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 131)
- **2022-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-15** Completed legislative action
- **2022-02-16** House Message received
- **2022-02-17** To Governor 2/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-18** To Governor 2/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-17** To Governor 2/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-18** To Governor 2/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/23/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/23/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/23/22 - House Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 230, 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/b50e781b-9173-4634-957a-8410462a9c73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).