republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-242.md

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Bill	Requiring health insurance providers provide coverage for certain Lyme disease treatment	Requiring health insurance providers provide coverage for certain Lyme disease treatment	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 242	West Virginia SB 242 (2018)	bill	Insurance	enacted	Trump	3	38	2	2018-01-11	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d02a32c5-57fe-4869-8ddc-5ab90cbb5ea0	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=242&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	9e35c8e8ddcbab92bcf5f2cc56099a249539140206c99d14f0e11892eebd78d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 242 (2018) — Requiring health insurance providers provide coverage for certain Lyme disease treatment

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 29–1 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 93–5 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Trump — primary (person)
• Blair — cosponsor (person)
• Maroney — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-11 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-11 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-12 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-11 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2018-01-29 On 1st reading
• 2018-01-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-30 On 2nd reading
• 2018-01-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-30 Takubo Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-01-30 Maroney Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-01-31 On 3rd reading
• 2018-01-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-31 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 38) passage
• 2018-01-31 Ordered to House
• 2018-02-01 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-01 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-01 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2018-03-02 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-05 Do pass
• 2018-03-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-08 Passed House (Roll No. 398) passage
• 2018-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-09 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-19 To Governor 3/19/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/19/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-20 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 124, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d02a32c5-57fe-4869-8ddc-5ab90cbb5ea0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).