---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to rural emergency hospital licensure"
description: "Relating to rural emergency hospital licensure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2993"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2993 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2076e78c-faee-4581-9aff-168b7113e74a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2993&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b0cacd2785b6ac81c4cdee74cb1697e8c42ea60b11ff76a66cafe9714f1ded99"
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 2993 (2023) — Relating to rural emergency hospital licensure

## 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=hb2993%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2993)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2993%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2993)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2993%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2993)
4. **hb2993 s h_hr am _1 2-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2993 s h_hr am _1 2-21 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 155) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-16** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 278) `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 404)
- **2023-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-03** House Message received
- **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 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 264, 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/2076e78c-faee-4581-9aff-168b7113e74a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).