---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring pricing and payment transparency from pharmacy benefits managers contracting with PEIA"
description: "Requiring pricing and payment transparency from pharmacy benefits managers contracting with PEIA"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 453"
citation: "West Virginia SB 453 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d786c37b-3fea-4c43-9df5-dcf3e78dd971"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=453&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ae8557399cd16c3a8c7dcd4f952ee3a5c337a959f6f2fc8af2699c4ae43aa309"
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 453 (2024) — Requiring pricing and payment transparency from pharmacy benefits managers contracting with PEIA

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb453%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=453)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb453%20sub2.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=453)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb453%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=453)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb453%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=453)
5. **sb453 hfin am adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb453%20hfin%20am%20adopted%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **90–5** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tarr — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-15** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-15** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-02** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2024-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-22** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 606)
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/8/2024
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-08** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/9/2024
- **2024-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-09** Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice)
- **2024-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 744) `passage`
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-14** To Governor 3/14/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d786c37b-3fea-4c43-9df5-dcf3e78dd971`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).