---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the practice of teledentistry"
description: "Relating to the practice of teledentistry"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 710"
citation: "West Virginia SB 710 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chapman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d958f7e-3ab1-48c2-a445-30d46cd25699"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=710&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3888f18a9ad8b9e7a80b608f03efa84e99eff0b847e5f1f708482d66993dc443"
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 710 (2025) — Relating to the practice of teledentistry

## 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=sb710%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=710)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb710%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=710)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb710%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=710)
4. **sb710 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb710%20h%20hhr%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chapman — primary (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-05** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2025-03-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 151) `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-24** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 516) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 577)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 204, 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/1d958f7e-3ab1-48c2-a445-30d46cd25699`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).