---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Medicaid providers"
description: "Relating to Medicaid providers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4335"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4335 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Worrell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56cf593d-7ca5-4965-9ea7-e28edbfa96c4"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4335&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1684280ced9f5aaf02cc88f4414ded876f7ad9773b5a35009ad03f7927d5b911"
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 HB 4335 (2026) — Relating to Medicaid providers

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4335%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4335)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4335%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4335)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4335%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4335)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4335%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4335)
5. **hb4335 sfat helton _ 2-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb4335%20sfat%20helton%20_%202-19%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Worrell — primary (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-14** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Markup Discussion
- **2026-01-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-23** Passed House (Roll No. 13) `passage`
- **2026-01-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-01-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-01-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** On 1st reading
- **2026-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2026-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 153) `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Title amendment adopted
- **2026-02-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 154)
- **2026-02-19** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2026-02-20** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 133)
- **2026-02-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 134)
- **2026-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2026-02-21** House Message received
- **2026-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-02-25** To Governor 2/23/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-02** Approved by Governor 2/28/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-02** Approved by Governor 2/28/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-02** Approved by Governor 2/28/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 182, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56cf593d-7ca5-4965-9ea7-e28edbfa96c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).