republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4217.md

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Bill	Permitting an attending physician to obtain a patient’s autopsy report	Permitting an attending physician to obtain a patient’s autopsy report	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4217	West Virginia HB 4217 (2018)	bill	Crime	enacted	Ellington	4	46	3	2018-01-19	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/6c715e8f-06fe-40d5-b8d1-467c9bfb2884	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4217&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	bee9bdfbf846c3813fc196fb46057b5f56dd0b9724515859fc60e23e993fcbf1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4217 (2018) — Permitting an attending physician to obtain a patient’s autopsy report

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ellington — primary (person)
• Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
• Criss — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Frich — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)
• Westfall — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-19 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-19 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-24 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-01-24 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-23 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-26 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-27 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-27 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-28 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-28 Passed House (Roll No. 244) passage
• 2018-02-28 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-28 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-01 House Message received
• 2018-03-01 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-03-01 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2018-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2018-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-08 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-09 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-09 Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
• 2018-03-09 Unanimous consent to amend
• 2018-03-09 Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-09 Passed Senate (Roll No. 455) passage
• 2018-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 539)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-21 To Governor 3/2118 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-21 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 29, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c715e8f-06fe-40d5-b8d1-467c9bfb2884. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).