---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to wild animal rehabilitation permits"
description: "Relating to wild animal rehabilitation permits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2836"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2836 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41b68bac-ff71-4d0f-a4a5-b70e626d27ac"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2836&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d4854db1dcfb0152cf0a447e27ab62689a5f1a26e83b876e4e9a360ff3dc7f30"
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 2836 (2025) — Relating to wild animal rehabilitation permits

## 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=hb2836%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2836)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2836%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2836)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2836%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2836)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2836%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2836)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **89–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Amos — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Browning — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** To House Agriculture, Commerce and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed House (Roll No. 236) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 481) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 190, 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/41b68bac-ff71-4d0f-a4a5-b70e626d27ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).