---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Good Samaritan law"
description: "Relating to Good Samaritan law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2605"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2605 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zatezalo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf79a944-b8c2-4a91-b7b4-a2da4facbe35"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2605&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "43a16481dc051007c24a0939652ef871e3141e35c427d64c8019ea551dfab42a"
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 2605 (2023) — Relating to Good Samaritan law

## 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=hb2605%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2605%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2605%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2605)
4. **hb2605 s jud am _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2605 s jud am _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
5. **hb2605 sfa trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2605 sfa trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2605 sfat trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2605 sfat trump _1 3-2 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zatezalo — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Nestor — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2023-03-02** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 359) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted
- **2023-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 495)
- **2023-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-07** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf79a944-b8c2-4a91-b7b4-a2da4facbe35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).