republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-650.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	Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients	Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2026	SB 650	West Virginia SB 650 (2026)	bill	Health	enacted	Queen	3	37	3	2026-01-28	2026-06-25	openstates	ocd-bill/a1499a72-df80-46c0-be08-f38231e9b361	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=650&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e0213d0b5aeabd728b739154549a7096947ee2b261579a487442673674cd2eec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 650 (2026) — Designating psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients

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. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Queen — primary (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-28 Filed for introduction filing
• 2026-01-28 To Health and Human Resources then Finance referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2026-01-28 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2026-02-13 Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
• 2026-02-13 To Finance referral-committee
• 2026-02-27 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2026-03-02 On 1st reading
• 2026-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-03-03 On 2nd reading
• 2026-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 On 3rd reading
• 2026-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Passed Senate (Roll No. 336) passage
• 2026-03-04 Effective from passage (Roll No. 337)
• 2026-03-04 Ordered to House
• 2026-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2026-03-05 Introduced in House introduction
• 2026-03-05 To Finance referral-committee
• 2026-03-05 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2026-03-05 Reference dispensed
• 2026-03-05 Immediate consideration
• 2026-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-09 Passed House (Roll No. 365) passage
• 2026-03-09 Effective from passage (Roll No. 366)
• 2026-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2026-03-10 House Message received
• 2026-03-11 To Governor 3/11/2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-02 Became law 4/2/2026
• 2026-04-02 Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
• 2026-03-14 Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
• 2026-06-25 Chapter 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1499a72-df80-46c0-be08-f38231e9b361. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).