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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription"
+description: "Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 577"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 577 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-02-07"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74229fe3-4e6d-4acd-8407-9163b8701042"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=577&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "395222a33ee2172ba0df8c7f2b8e666a73b70f8d4fa921b26ad53df80174f4df"
+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 577 (2023) — Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription
+
+## 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=sb577%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb577%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb577%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
+4. **sb577 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb577 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **sb577 hfat summers 2-28 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 hfat summers 2-28 _2 adopted.htm)
+6. **sb577 sfa takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 sfa takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
+7. **sb577 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maroney — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-17** Committee substitute reported
+- **2023-02-20** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-21** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-21** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/21/2023
+- **2023-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 247) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Ordered to House
+- **2023-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-23** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 447) `passage`
+- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 574)
+- **2023-03-11** Effective January 1, 2024 (Roll No. 574)
+- **2023-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 773)
+- **2023-03-11** Effective January 1, 2024 (Roll No. 774)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74229fe3-4e6d-4acd-8407-9163b8701042`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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