---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transferring Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to Attorney General's office"
description: "Transferring Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to Attorney General's office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 318"
citation: "West Virginia SB 318 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Officers", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81df25b8-b6a5-47cd-a74a-4e8f289d6808"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=318&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9322c96e7ad80fa40449107e2c18aaa04ff85a9ad70ce783d7da01989b486013"
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 318 (2019) — Transferring Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to Attorney General's office

## 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=SB318%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=318)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB318%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=318)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB318%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=318)

## Votes

- EFFECT OCTOBER 1, 2019 — **73–23** (pass) · lower
- HFA FLEISCHAUER ET AL 3-6 — **40–58** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **58–42** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2021 — **40–59** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **26–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-25** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 262) `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Effective October 1, 2019 (Roll No. 262)
- **2019-02-27** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Do pass
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 496) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 519) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Effective July 1, 2021 rejected (Roll No. 520)
- **2019-03-07** Effective October 1, 2019 (Roll No. 521)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 138, 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/81df25b8-b6a5-47cd-a74a-4e8f289d6808`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).