---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to allowing retired state employees who meet the minimum qualifications necessary, to render post-retirement employment with the Department of Health and Human Resources"
description: "Relating to allowing retired state employees who meet the minimum qualifications necessary, to render post-retirement employment with the Department of Health and Human Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2917"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2917 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 51
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f049765e-93e1-4b3c-8c42-34a523d6a1c9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2917&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "85b47e67b6ed8039d57a997afd6b0923a55f7b02a5b8e5002a9d25acf77fd65b"
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 2917 (2023) — Relating to allowing retired state employees who meet the minimum qualifications necessary, to render post-retirement employment with 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=hb2917%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2917)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2917%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2917)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2917%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2917)
4. **hb2917 hfat criss 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2917 hfat criss 3-7 adopted.htm)
5. **hb2917 sfa nelson _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2917 sfa nelson _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2917 sfat nelson _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2917 sfat nelson _1 3-3 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-23** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-23** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 212) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 213)
- **2023-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-06** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-03-06** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/6/2023 with right to amend
- **2023-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-07** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 409) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 409)
- **2023-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-08** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 542)
- **2023-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 543)
- **2023-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-09** House Message received
- **2023-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 484)
- **2023-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 484)
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 248, 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/f049765e-93e1-4b3c-8c42-34a523d6a1c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).