---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate"
description: "Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2042"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2042 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burkhammer"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df2493ae-5d80-468c-80f0-848a0be3358e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2042&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "35c8ab2dcd6ea6b4514f5af3c2735d7dddacc52b3af0ff9cc2cba2949b6a33b0"
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 2042 (2025) — Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate

## 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=hb2042%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2042)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2042%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2042)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2042%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2042)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2042%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2042)
5. **hb2042 hfat akers 2-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2042%20hfat%20akers%202-24%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2042 hfat mcgeehan 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2042%20hfat%20mcgeehan%204-1%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2042 s jud am _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2042%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%203-10%20adopted.htm)
8. **hb2042 s jud amt _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2042%20s%20jud%20amt%20_1%203-10%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burkhammer — primary (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** To House Courts `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 9) `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-14** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 117) `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 367)
- **2025-04-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-07** House Message received
- **2025-04-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 325)
- **2025-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df2493ae-5d80-468c-80f0-848a0be3358e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).