---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan"
description: "Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 518"
citation: "West Virginia SB 518 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maroney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d057f11-ec35-410f-a35e-f0f490104835"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=518&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "59fc22bbb66834eec0d8fa37188700d0a723a76a98bef623a57eb479a0df2a57"
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 518 (2019) — Restricting sale and trade of dextromethorphan

## 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=SB518%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=518)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB518%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=518)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB518%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=518)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **92–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maroney — primary (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-01** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 142) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2019-02-28** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2019-02-28** Placed on Special Calender
- **2019-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 400) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-02** House Message received
- **2019-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 319)
- **2019-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 53, 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/7d057f11-ec35-410f-a35e-f0f490104835`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).