---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to maximizing the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education"
description: "Relating to maximizing the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4340"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4340 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fae0bade-2d58-4333-af67-a2eaf1a7383c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4340&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bf33e539cc0afc6acb2037aea27672bc80ebe7e05c0677614160fd4e7c9837c8"
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 4340 (2022) — Relating to maximizing the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education

## 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=HB4340%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4340)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4340%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4340)
3. **HB4340 S H_HR AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4340 S H_HR AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4340 S JUD AM _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4340 S JUD AM _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4340 S JUD AMT _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4340 S JUD AMT _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4340%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4340)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (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.

- **2022-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-21** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 170) `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-21** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-08** Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-12** Health and Human Resources Committee Amendment Reported
- **2022-03-12** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
- **2022-03-12** Judiciary Com. amend. to com. amend. adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 533) `passage`
- **2022-03-12** Health and Human Resources Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-12** Judiciary Committee title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 677)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** 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 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 231, 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/fae0bade-2d58-4333-af67-a2eaf1a7383c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).