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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders"
+description: "Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 401"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 401 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/628bbe95-0d0f-4bd0-9d93-0c18d2160385"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=401&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "25c898337e02e0642dcc42418cceccb308cde014ea8aedf6520a43da4d1af654"
+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 401 (2018) — Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB401%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=401)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB401%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=401)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB401%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=401)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **90–7** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Weld — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferns — cosponsor (person)
+- Romano — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-26** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-01-26** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Senator Cline requests to be removed as sponsor of bill
+- **2018-02-09** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-09** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-26** Committee substitute reported
+- **2018-02-26** Immediate consideration
+- **2018-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-27** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-28** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 230) `passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Ordered to House
+- **2018-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-28** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-02** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 452) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-10** House Message received
+- **2018-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 475)
+- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-23** Chapter 126, 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/628bbe95-0d0f-4bd0-9d93-0c18d2160385`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+