---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to regulating prior authorizations"
description: "Relating to regulating prior authorizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2351"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2351 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 61
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e06eeefd-3e19-4872-82c0-1247aa6e37a0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2351&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bd06b69cd8364f6fcc0d341bf74d0b4e098e5aeaa069326786d61ac7692bc2df"
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 2351 (2019) — Relating to regulating prior authorizations

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2351%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
2. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted - Copy.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted - Copy.htm)
4. **HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2351 S H_HR AM _4 as amended adopted.htm)
5. **HB2351 SFA _AMENDMENT 5 1-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2351 SFA _AMENDMENT 5 1-28 adopted.htm)
6. **HB2351 SFAT _AMENDMENT 5 MARONEY 1-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2351 SFAT _AMENDMENT 5 MARONEY 1-25 adopted.htm)
7. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 202)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00202.pdf)
8. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2351%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
9. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2351%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2351)
10. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 169)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/02-20-0169.pdf)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **88–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Angelucci — cosponsor (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Staggers — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Originating in House Health and Human Resources
- **2019-01-11** Do pass
- **2019-01-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-16** Passed House (Roll No. 2) `passage`
- **2019-01-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-17** House Message received
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2019-01-29** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-29** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 41) `passage`
- **2019-01-30** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-02-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-05** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 72)
- **2019-02-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-08** House Message received
- **2019-02-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-02-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-11** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-11** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2019-02-11** House appointed conferees: Ellington, Hollen, Staggers
- **2019-02-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-12** House Message received
- **2019-02-12** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Maroney, Takubo, Stollings
- **2019-02-12** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-12** To conference
- **2019-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-18** Conference report filed - House
- **2019-02-18** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2019-02-19** Conference report received-House
- **2019-02-19** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 202)
- **2019-02-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 203)
- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-20** House Message received
- **2019-02-20** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 169)
- **2019-02-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 169)
- **2019-02-20** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-27** To Governor 2/26/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-26** To Governor 2/26/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e06eeefd-3e19-4872-82c0-1247aa6e37a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).