---
type: "Bill"
title: "Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers"
description: "Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2263"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2263 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack, J."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 63
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fd7a4e0-ad21-40ec-81a4-60f78cb4ed3a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2263&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4899112fb0daef7f488016fabe218eb9c049c54e67aeb27fd8f376a2de652442"
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 HB 2263 (2021) — Update the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers

## 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=HB2263%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2263)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2263%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2263)
3. **HB2263 HFA SUMMERS 3-19 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2263 HFA SUMMERS 3-19 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2263 S H_HR AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2263 S H_HR AM _1 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2263 SFA _1 MARONEY 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2263 SFA _1 MARONEY 3-11 adopted.htm)
6. **HB2263 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2263 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-11 adopted.htm)
7. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 320)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2021/RS/votes/house/00320.pdf)
8. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2263%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2263)
9. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 239)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2021/RS/votes/senate/03-30-0239.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pack, J. — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed House (Roll No. 24) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-12** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-12** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2021-03-12** Maroney Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-12** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-15** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-15** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/15/21
- **2021-03-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 133) `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-03-19** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-19** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 212)
- **2021-03-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-23** House Message received
- **2021-03-23** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2021-03-23** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-24** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-24** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2021-03-24** House conferees: Pack, J., Jeffries, D., Griffith
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** House Message received
- **2021-03-25** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Maroney, Takubo, Stollings
- **2021-03-25** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-25** To conference
- **2021-03-25** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-26** Conferee(s) Weld replace conferee(s) Takubo
- **2021-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-26** Conference report filed - House
- **2021-03-27** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2021-03-29** Conference report received-House
- **2021-03-29** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 320)
- **2021-03-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-30** House Message received
- **2021-03-30** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 239)
- **2021-03-30** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-30** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** To Governor 4/5/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor 4/9/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 164, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fd7a4e0-ad21-40ec-81a4-60f78cb4ed3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).