---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to postmortem examinations"
description: "Relating to postmortem examinations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2358"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2358 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/512f43d8-ef6d-4de0-8bcf-975eb5f0c3d2"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2358&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ac9033ef9cc6d95f1290298989b129bfeb8a8d6c4574223665149d66e624c3c1"
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 2358 (2025) — Relating to postmortem examinations

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2358%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2358)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2358%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2358)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2358%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2358)
4. **hb2358 s gov am _1 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2358%20s%20gov%20am%20_1%204-8%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2358 sfat rucker _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2358%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Masters — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** To House Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-06** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-12** Do pass
- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 97) `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 474) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 576)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-22** Chapter 39, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/512f43d8-ef6d-4de0-8bcf-975eb5f0c3d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).