---
type: "Bill"
title: "Including Alzheimer's disease in existing public health programs"
description: "Including Alzheimer's disease in existing public health programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 526"
citation: "West Virginia SB 526 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Takubo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64f08e2d-b9e0-499a-b53e-14f4ea3fddaa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=526&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2a62ca15f4ceb307360dbd68206e3ff0a6f296eed910ce561a51194cf7c9267e"
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 526 (2023) — Including Alzheimer's disease in existing public health programs

## 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=sb526%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=526)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb526%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=526)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb526%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=526)
4. **sb526 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb526 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
5. **sb526 hfat summers 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb526 hfat summers 2-28 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Takubo — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-16** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 194)
- **2023-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed Senate (Roll No. 195) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 446) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-06** House Message received
- **2023-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 394)
- **2023-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/22/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/22/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 252, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64f08e2d-b9e0-499a-b53e-14f4ea3fddaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).