---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Resources"
description: "Relating to reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2006"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2006 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70befa9c-cd8d-48d5-b51d-17e68f4b3062"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2006&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0390f12b670e609a4ea76a51ef2367106103c9e987bd7ec2a461a42dcf3634cc"
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 2006 (2023) — Relating to reorganizing the Department of Health and Human Resources

## 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=hb2006%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2006%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2006%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2006%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
5. **hb2006 hfa summers 2-13 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2006 hfa summers 2-13 _2 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2006 hfat summer 2-14 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2006 hfat summer 2-14 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Hall, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Honaker — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-12** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-18** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 128) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-02-20** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 242) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-22** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-23** House received Senate message
- **2023-02-27** To Governor 2/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** To Governor 2/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-28** To Governor 2/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/4/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/4/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-04** Approved by Governor 3/4/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 189, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70befa9c-cd8d-48d5-b51d-17e68f4b3062`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).