---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to a tax on managed care organizations"
description: "Relating to a tax on managed care organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 5459"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5459 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-12"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64f2c270-5e97-4981-b89b-dea550bd9ab8"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5459&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1954d709544ac3d2020bdccb1c85dd0d6c109bb9f1315f36e6659a78f112f105"
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 5459 (2026) — Relating to a tax on managed care organizations

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5459%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5459)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5459%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5459)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5459%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5459)
4. **hb5459 hfa rohrbach 2-26 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb5459%20hfa%20rohrbach%202-26%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **90–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Do pass
- **2026-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-27** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-02-27** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Passed House (Roll No. 249) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2026-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 471) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/26 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 285, 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/64f2c270-5e97-4981-b89b-dea550bd9ab8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).