---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to fatality and mortality review team"
description: "Relating to fatality and mortality review team"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4874"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4874 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bc469e1-6ec0-4b26-9772-fdc2b1608bd3"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4874&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b3b947042f21910282d9fc673b377a70b588567bb306a3bb7883b0d447500519"
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 4874 (2024) — Relating to fatality and mortality review team

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4874%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4874)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4874%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4874)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4874%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4874)
4. **hb4874 s h_hr am _ 2-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4874%20s%20h_hr%20am%20_%202-18%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb4874 s h_hr amt _ 2-22 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4874%20s%20h_hr%20amt%20_%202-22%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 33) `passage`
- **2024-01-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 34)
- **2024-01-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-26** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/26/2024
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 309) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 309)
- **2024-02-28** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-01** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-01** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-01** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 414)
- **2024-03-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 415)
- **2024-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-04** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 150, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bc469e1-6ec0-4b26-9772-fdc2b1608bd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).