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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs"
+description: "Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2768"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2768 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-30"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff573c09-6516-4735-817e-9823234b5099"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2768&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "2c03020297ece5ea61f0ded67b51fe922b307478eb1cc5df7f1dd1000a0e4c9f"
+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 2768 (2019) — Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs
+
+## 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=HB2768%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2768%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)
+3. **HB2768 S H_HR AM _23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2768 S H_HR AM _23 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2768%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **73–27** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **80–17** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rohrbach — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-30** To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Health and Human Resources
+- **2019-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-01-30** To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** With amendment, do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-08** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** By substitute, do pass
+- **2019-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 193) `passage`
+- **2019-02-18** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-19** House Message received
+- **2019-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 443) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 677)
+- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-09** House Message received
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 218, 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/ff573c09-6516-4735-817e-9823234b5099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+