---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the licensure of nursing homes"
description: "Relating to the licensure of nursing homes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2607"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2607 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d00d3ebd-6bc9-41d3-bb76-ac16d60717de"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2607&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "dffd74d5e549235c469aaffac1a172aa99e17e1ff18dbe5b440aa7a6bf799497"
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 2607 (2019) — Relating to the licensure of nursing homes

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2607%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2607)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2607%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2607)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2607%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2607)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Staggers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-23** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-01-31** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Passed House (Roll No. 69) `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-05** House Message received
- **2019-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-05** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 180) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-27** To Governor 2/26/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d00d3ebd-6bc9-41d3-bb76-ac16d60717de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).