---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy"
description: "Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2172"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2172 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Worrell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33407035-6bce-4133-b5e2-0fdb93db5971"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2172&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6984e6aba2008ced423f304bca06f90370388079ac1b88f2f26b79995d3d476b"
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 2172 (2025) — Relating to adding an athletic trainer to the Board of Physical Therapy

## 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=hb2172%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2172)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2172%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2172)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2172%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2172)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2172%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2172)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **29–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Worrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** To House Health Care Regulations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-06** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-12** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 96) `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 304)
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 309) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **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 138, 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/33407035-6bce-4133-b5e2-0fdb93db5971`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).