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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to regulating prior authorizations"
+description: "Relating to regulating prior authorizations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2351"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2351 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 61
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-11"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e06eeefd-3e19-4872-82c0-1247aa6e37a0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2351&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "bd06b69cd8364f6fcc0d341bf74d0b4e098e5aeaa069326786d61ac7692bc2df"
+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 HB 2351 (2019) — Relating to regulating prior authorizations
+
+## 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=HB2351%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
+2. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted - Copy.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted - Copy.htm)
+4. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted.htm)
+5. **HB2351 SFA _AMENDMENT 5 1-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2351 SFA _AMENDMENT 5 1-28 adopted.htm)
+6. **HB2351 SFAT _AMENDMENT 5 MARONEY 1-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2351 SFAT _AMENDMENT 5 MARONEY 1-25 adopted.htm)
+7. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 202)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00202.pdf)
+8. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2351%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
+9. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2351%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
+10. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 169)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/02-20-0169.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **88–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Angelucci — cosponsor (person)
+- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Staggers — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-11** Originating in House Health and Human Resources
+- **2019-01-11** Do pass
+- **2019-01-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-01-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-01-16** Passed House (Roll No. 2) `passage`
+- **2019-01-16** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-01-17** House Message received
+- **2019-01-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading
+- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Committee Amendment Reported
+- **2019-01-29** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-01-29** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 41) `passage`
+- **2019-01-30** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-02-05** House received Senate message
+- **2019-02-05** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 72)
+- **2019-02-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-08** House Message received
+- **2019-02-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-08** Communicated to House
+- **2019-02-11** House received Senate message
+- **2019-02-11** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-11** House appointed conferees: Ellington, Hollen, Staggers
+- **2019-02-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-12** House Message received
+- **2019-02-12** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Maroney, Takubo, Stollings
+- **2019-02-12** Communicated to House
+- **2019-02-12** To conference
+- **2019-02-13** House received Senate message
+- **2019-02-18** Conference report filed - House
+- **2019-02-18** Conference report filed - Senate
+- **2019-02-19** Conference report received-House
+- **2019-02-19** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 202)
+- **2019-02-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 203)
+- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-20** House Message received
+- **2019-02-20** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 169)
+- **2019-02-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 169)
+- **2019-02-20** Communicated to House
+- **2019-02-20** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-02-20** House received Senate message
+- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-27** To Governor 2/26/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e06eeefd-3e19-4872-82c0-1247aa6e37a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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