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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process"
+description: "Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 833"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 833 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chapman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-20"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3a508fb-9a66-4e8e-9187-ee932769580e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=833&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "389d234d1aba870d6a9f55eed0ccd0aed5c4e737f4696c3de06a4e23321a121c"
+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 833 (2025) — Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb833%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb833%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb833%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chapman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-26** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-28** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/28/2025
+- **2025-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 235) `passage`
+- **2025-03-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 236)
+- **2025-03-29** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-31** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-04-09** Do pass
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 523) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 528)
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 191, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3a508fb-9a66-4e8e-9187-ee932769580e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+