---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription"
description: "Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 577"
citation: "West Virginia SB 577 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74229fe3-4e6d-4acd-8407-9163b8701042"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=577&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "395222a33ee2172ba0df8c7f2b8e666a73b70f8d4fa921b26ad53df80174f4df"
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 577 (2023) — Reducing copay cap on insulin and devices and permitting purchase of testing equipment without prescription

## 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=sb577%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb577%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb577%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=577)
4. **sb577 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb577 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
5. **sb577 hfat summers 2-28 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 hfat summers 2-28 _2 adopted.htm)
6. **sb577 sfa takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 sfa takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
7. **sb577 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb577 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maroney — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** Committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-21** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/21/2023
- **2023-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 247) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-23** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 447) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 574)
- **2023-03-11** Effective January 1, 2024 (Roll No. 574)
- **2023-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 773)
- **2023-03-11** Effective January 1, 2024 (Roll No. 774)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74229fe3-4e6d-4acd-8407-9163b8701042`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).