republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4257.md

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Bill	Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility	Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4257	West Virginia HB 4257 (2022)	bill	Health	enacted	Jeffries, D.	5	44	1	2022-01-19	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4257&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	0bdfb3343fe9c21109af782b5af502ae2b753533aff6a6abfbb59d957da9f269	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4257 (2022) — Require visitation immediately following a procedure in a health care facility

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4257 S H_HR AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
4. HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4257 SFAT MARONEY _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
5. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeffries, D. — primary (person)
• Bates — cosponsor (person)
• Forsht — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Mallow — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Rowan — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)
• Tully — cosponsor (person)
• Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
• Worrell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2022-01-19 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-19 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 By substitute, do pass
• 2022-01-27 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-01-28 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-01-31 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-01-31 Passed House (Roll No. 60) passage
• 2022-01-31 Effective from passage (Roll No. 61)
• 2022-01-31 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-02-01 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-02-01 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-01 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2022-03-04 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2022-03-07 On 1st reading
• 2022-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-03-08 On 2nd reading
• 2022-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2022-03-09 On 3rd reading
• 2022-03-09 Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
• 2022-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-09 Passed Senate (Roll No. 400) passage
• 2022-03-09 Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2022-03-09 Floor title amendment adopted
• 2022-03-09 Effective from passage (Roll No. 400)
• 2022-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2022-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2022-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 465)
• 2022-03-10 Effective from passage (Roll No. 466)
• 2022-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2022-03-11 House Message received
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-25 To Governor 3/25/22 executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
• 2022-03-28 Approved by Governor 3/28/22 executive-signature
• 2022-04-19 Chapter 229, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27c528a4-3931-454d-82fa-29d6057ee21e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).