republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-3444.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to inflammation of the eyes of newborns.	Relating to inflammation of the eyes of newborns.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 3444	West Virginia HB 3444 (2025)	bill	Health	enacted	Worrell	4	35	2	2025-03-17	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/54a94ce5-42ea-418b-ae5d-1411e832e5e6	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3444&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	00d1c788522660e27be0591344b3f268293af29654a0a06f3d01c0d69143bfec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3444 (2025) — Relating to inflammation of the eyes of newborns.

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 — 18–15 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Worrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-17 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-17 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-27 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-28 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-31 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-31 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-01 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-01 Passed House (Roll No. 337) passage
• 2025-04-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-02 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-02 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-08 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-09 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-09 Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 416)
• 2025-04-10 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 447) passage
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-10 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-22 To Governor 4/22/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
• 2025-04-30 Became law 4/30/2025
• 2025-04-12 Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 53, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54a94ce5-42ea-418b-ae5d-1411e832e5e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).