---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals"
description: "Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4524"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4524 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7e08edc-9ec9-4155-90dc-e379c40a27c7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4524&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b494fc734404737d70cc76d7e5170f597df8bf47339f3611a880e657545b3c02"
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 4524 (2018) — Establishing guidelines for the substitution of certain biological pharmaceuticals

## 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=HB4524%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4524)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4524%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4524)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4524%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4524)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-13** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 256) `passage`
- **2018-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-01** House Message received
- **2018-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-03-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 449) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 559)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-17** Chapter 188, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7e08edc-9ec9-4155-90dc-e379c40a27c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).