---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring entities report drug overdoses"
description: "Requiring entities report drug overdoses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 520"
citation: "West Virginia SB 520 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4edc4efc-c773-4f56-8ccf-cccea335afeb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=520&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8cd3d740a9ec4585b7ffaea88f325f13bb7ae6081320dc39018a7d219d84e1d6"
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 520 (2019) — Requiring entities report drug overdoses

## 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=SB520%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=520)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB520%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=520)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB520%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=520)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maroney — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-23** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 244) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 427) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 341)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 207, 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/4edc4efc-c773-4f56-8ccf-cccea335afeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).