---
type: "Bill"
title: "Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process"
description: "Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 833"
citation: "West Virginia SB 833 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chapman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3a508fb-9a66-4e8e-9187-ee932769580e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=833&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "389d234d1aba870d6a9f55eed0ccd0aed5c4e737f4696c3de06a4e23321a121c"
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 833 (2025) — Excluding pharmaceutical medication from prior authorization gold card process

## 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=sb833%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb833%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb833%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=833)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chapman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-26** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-28** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/28/2025
- **2025-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 235) `passage`
- **2025-03-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 236)
- **2025-03-29** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-09** Do pass
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 523) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 528)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 191, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3a508fb-9a66-4e8e-9187-ee932769580e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).