---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act"
description: "Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3277"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3277 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hite"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-10"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cddd1a9-b543-408c-8326-0832a1b4beaf"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3277&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4be6e8f76401b7b285bcfce5cf69c330e0b5bd6fb085199f1f852064589c8209"
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 3277 (2025) — Relating to defining terms for the West Virginia Hospital Finance Authority Act

## 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=hb3277%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3277%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3277%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3277)
4. **hb3277 s hhr am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3277%20s%20hhr%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **92–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Do pass
- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 173) `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 174)
- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 376) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** 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. 610)
- **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`
- **2025-04-28** 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 140, 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/9cddd1a9-b543-408c-8326-0832a1b4beaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).