---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring Office of Inspector General to promulgate rules concerning location of forensic group homes"
description: "Requiring Office of Inspector General to promulgate rules concerning location of forensic group homes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 679"
citation: "West Virginia SB 679 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-20"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60861585-6d48-41f7-9325-1fb51bfda1cf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=679&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "72eb6e7940c69e5ff3d3ff8ad3b4537c7776b33893db042fb9509be76564cf0a"
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 679 (2023) — Requiring Office of Inspector General to promulgate rules concerning location of forensic group homes

## 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=sb679%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=679)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb679%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=679)
3. **sb679 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb679 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
4. **sb679 hfat summers 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb679 hfat summers 2-27 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tarr — primary (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-24** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 298) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 298)
- **2023-02-27** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-28** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 452) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 453)
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-06** House Message received
- **2023-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 395)
- **2023-03-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 395)
- **2023-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 258, 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/60861585-6d48-41f7-9325-1fb51bfda1cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).