---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing certain requirements for dental insurance"
description: "Establishing certain requirements for dental insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 310"
citation: "West Virginia SB 310 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stollings"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aeb3255b-745d-4af8-9312-7b1f622728a4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=310&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "42ddc1638c5fbbe1f60309555d4b722de76a48e2483f29ae2b657c1cd564a2ab"
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 310 (2019) — Establishing certain requirements for dental insurance

## 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=SB310%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=310)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB310%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=310)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB310%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=310)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB310%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=310)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2019 — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stollings — primary (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-15** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-01-18** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 172) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 172)
- **2019-02-20** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Do pass
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-02** Passed House (Roll No. 405) `passage`
- **2019-03-02** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-02** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 406)
- **2019-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-04** House Message received
- **2019-03-04** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 326) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 326)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 143, 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/aeb3255b-745d-4af8-9312-7b1f622728a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).