---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to physician assistants collaborating with physicians in hospitals"
description: "Relating to physician assistants collaborating with physicians in hospitals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 668"
citation: "West Virginia SB 668 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4eb6db8b-448d-4433-8584-f082ef918c83"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=668&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a977766213b27852f462f974fa1b0cce476ca058cebfdabbffe2639b701b0c52"
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 SB 668 (2019) — Relating to physician assistants collaborating with physicians in hospitals

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB668%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=668)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB668%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=668)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Azinger — primary (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Originating in Senate Health and Human Resources
- **2019-02-21** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-23** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/23/19
- **2019-02-25** Reported by clerk
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 256) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 432) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 342)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Senate reconsidered action (voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 363)
- **2019-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-06** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 506) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 191, 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/4eb6db8b-448d-4433-8584-f082ef918c83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).