---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals"
description: "Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5157"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5157 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e5584c5-a11b-4c2d-bc73-05033b3a2c24"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5157&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fcae5d281c2025d34ce5b0416f1fe845e035bf2e5fb453fbf8f84193ed5b44f1"
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 5157 (2024) — Relating to contingent increase of tax rate on certain eligible acute care hospitals

## 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=hb5157%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5157)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5157%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5157)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5157%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5157)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **83–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **85–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-01-31** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** Passed House (Roll No. 88) `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 89)
- **2024-02-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** Passed Senate (Roll No. 144) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Effective from passage (Roll No. 144)
- **2024-02-14** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-14** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-15** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 261, 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/1e5584c5-a11b-4c2d-bc73-05033b3a2c24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).