---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs"
description: "Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2768"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2768 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff573c09-6516-4735-817e-9823234b5099"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2768&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2c03020297ece5ea61f0ded67b51fe922b307478eb1cc5df7f1dd1000a0e4c9f"
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 2768 (2019) — Reducing the use of certain prescription drugs

## 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=HB2768%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2768%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)
3. **HB2768 S H_HR AM _23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2768 S H_HR AM _23 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2768%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2768)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **73–27** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **80–17** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-30** To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Health and Human Resources
- **2019-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** With amendment, do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 193) `passage`
- **2019-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-19** House Message received
- **2019-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 443) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 677)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 218, 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/ff573c09-6516-4735-817e-9823234b5099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).