---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health and Human Resources"
description: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health and Human Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3553"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3553 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-03-04"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74c5d339-a849-4c49-aa55-e8346977c0e7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3553&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8b9d9ab82c3449e5a21985f95acf6c4c7e2a292d083144763e6afc9b9ce43e97"
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 3553 (2023) — Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Health and Human Resources

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3553%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3553)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3553%20org.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3553)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rowe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-04** Originating in House Finance
- **2023-03-04** Do pass
- **2023-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 574) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 575)
- **2023-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-03-10** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-10** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 497)
- **2023-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 498) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 498)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 52, 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/74c5d339-a849-4c49-aa55-e8346977c0e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).