---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preventing courts from ordering services at higher rate than Medicaid"
description: "Preventing courts from ordering services at higher rate than Medicaid"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 128"
citation: "West Virginia SB 128 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4b502e3-b8ec-4469-a96f-29532362cfef"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=128&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "02744df811907520795b7445cca3868380b16a5993df361d379d0365dfeead15"
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 128 (2025) — Preventing courts from ordering services at higher rate than Medicaid

## 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=sb128%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=128)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb128%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=128)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb128%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=128)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tarr — primary (person)
- Fuller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-21** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-24** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 168) `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Do pass
- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12** Passed House (Roll No. 565) `passage`
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4b502e3-b8ec-4469-a96f-29532362cfef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).