---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revising service obligation for certain doctoral medical degree programs"
description: "Revising service obligation for certain doctoral medical degree programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 681"
citation: "West Virginia SB 681 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Health", "Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88b12915-ebce-43ff-b893-eaed8cfee410"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=681&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f2c8f573f3b5f13e4401f35615f4e5bbe9a9a5ee63f8cb1b47185210b9e48830"
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 681 (2024) — Revising service obligation for certain doctoral medical degree programs

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb681%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=681)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb681%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=681)
3. **sb681 h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb681%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **88–7** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **83–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-07** To Military
- **2024-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-07** To Military
- **2024-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-20** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 208) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-23** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 614)
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 615) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-09** House receded and passed (Roll No. 755)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/24 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 157, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88b12915-ebce-43ff-b893-eaed8cfee410`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).