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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund"
description: "Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 576"
citation: "West Virginia SB 576 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaunch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8fb1978-9ea0-46c7-8551-f26ad37b2eff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=576&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e1c78ee129df59cf1b6459a30ef6c44dd57f8afdee0bcffb05abb715a714438b"
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 576 (2018) — Relating to Patient Injury Compensation Fund
## 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=SB576%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=576)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB576%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=576)
## Votes
- Passage — **320** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **961** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Gaunch — primary (person)
- Ferns — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-16** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2018-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 184) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-26** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 381) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-08** House Message received
- **2018-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 395)
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** To Governor 3/19/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 2, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8fb1978-9ea0-46c7-8551-f26ad37b2eff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).