---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding comprehensive coverage for pregnant women through Medicaid"
description: "Expanding comprehensive coverage for pregnant women through Medicaid"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 564"
citation: "West Virginia SB 564 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9be6e10d-5354-4b8b-906b-056ff9ae6123"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=564&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5442c4391ac291b355911fb451e6cd3e8d4470107cd9ea7e39540d81bea5b4fb"
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 564 (2019) — Expanding comprehensive coverage for pregnant women through Medicaid

## 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=SB564%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=564)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB564%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=564)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB564%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=564)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Takubo — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-11** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 275) `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-03-02** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Do pass
- **2019-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 618) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 489) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - 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 139, 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/9be6e10d-5354-4b8b-906b-056ff9ae6123`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).