---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to medical professional liability"
description: "Relating to medical professional liability"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 510"
citation: "West Virginia SB 510 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59350a58-a6d2-4d57-891c-0026495392e7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=510&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "298b3dcb99530af145e1c7805ecdcfa1bebd2828c94f57a0a08390d92489b047"
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 510 (2019) — Relating to medical professional liability

## 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=SB510%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=510)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB510%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=510)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB510%20SUB2%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=510)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB510%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=510)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB510%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=510)
6. **SB510 SFA TRUMP 2-20 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB510 SFA TRUMP 2-20 _1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **27–6** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **86–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Takubo — primary (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-07** Motion
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 187) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Do pass
- **2019-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 396) `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-28** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-01** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 `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 1, 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/59350a58-a6d2-4d57-891c-0026495392e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).