---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients"
description: "Providing dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 648"
citation: "West Virginia SB 648 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faa44185-a909-4a15-a38f-a15e65ac5611"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=648&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2949753ccd8b548313f7489a735d8ff334a5e0546abe925188ee3054cece80d3"
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 648 (2020) — Providing dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients

## 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=SB648%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=648)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB648%20SUB2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=648)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB648%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=648)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB648%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=648)
5. **SB648 H FIN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB648 H FIN AM _1 adopted.htm)
6. **SB648 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB648 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **85–12** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **84–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **85–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Takubo — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-29** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-29** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2020-02-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 302) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 601)
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 602) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 539)
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 757)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-18** To Governor 3/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 182, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/faa44185-a909-4a15-a38f-a15e65ac5611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).