---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to providing access to medical records; providing access to a minor’s medical record"
description: "Relating to providing access to medical records; providing access to a minor’s medical record"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2402"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2402 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burkhammer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 56
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5f90d31-b223-44c4-adff-67385b4ef400"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2402&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "66ed5893652a1fc2a1aeda5ed470918ffee2d0e4512757154ccfb2c6538e26ae"
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 2402 (2025) — Relating to providing access to medical records; providing access to a minor’s medical record

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2402%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2402)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2402%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2402)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2402%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2402)
4. **hb2402 sfa chapman _2 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2402%20sfa%20chapman%20_2%204-10%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2402 sfat chapman _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2402%20sfat%20chapman%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **83–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **87–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burkhammer — primary (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Petitto — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-07** Do pass
- **2025-03-07** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-11** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-11** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 65) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/25/2025, com. amend. pending
- **2025-03-26** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/26/2025, com. amend. pending
- **2025-03-27** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/27/2025, com. amend. pending
- **2025-03-28** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/28/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-03-29** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/29/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-03-31** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/31/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-04-01** Laid over on 2nd reading 4/1/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-04-02** Rereferred to Health and Human Resources on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2025-04-10** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 428) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 589)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate 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 181, 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/c5f90d31-b223-44c4-adff-67385b4ef400`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).