---
type: "Bill"
title: "To permit a hospital to hold a patient experiencing a psychiatric emergency for up to 72 hours"
description: "To permit a hospital to hold a patient experiencing a psychiatric emergency for up to 72 hours"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3166"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3166 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39083c80-7068-4a43-abae-fd59decd84d6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3166&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ebbabccfe633b157bc318ae803304abd065cecaf6864c4ced086381e68c60d25"
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 3166 (2023) — To permit a hospital to hold a patient experiencing a psychiatric emergency for up to 72 hours

## 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=hb3166%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3166)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3166%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3166)
3. **hb3166 s jud amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3166 s jud amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-31** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2023-02-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Do pass
- **2023-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-24** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-24** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 237) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-25** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 541) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2023-03-11** Passed House (Roll No. 727) `passage`
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** To Governor 3/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 267, 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/39083c80-7068-4a43-abae-fd59decd84d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).