republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-273.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Reducing use of certain prescription drugs	Reducing use of certain prescription drugs	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 273	West Virginia SB 273 (2018)	bill	Governor -- Bills Requested By	enacted	Carmichael	5	58	4	2018-01-15	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/1ac41d96-2a03-4c26-9a75-f6977ac80970	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=273&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e4a012f78ff633a1b4f08bc934078dc4dbe0d6633bbeca5d839847d8ab8f716a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 273 (2018) — Reducing use of certain prescription drugs

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. Second Engrossment (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 97–1 (pass) · legislature
• HFA HORNBUCKLE ET AL 3-6 — 36–59 (fail) · legislature
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• HFA BYRD ET AL 3-7 — 37–62 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

• Carmichael — primary (person)
• Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-15 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-15 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-15 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-15 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-02 Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
• 2018-02-02 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-12 Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
• 2018-02-13 On 1st reading
• 2018-02-13 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-14 On 2nd reading
• 2018-02-14 Laid over on 2nd reading 2/14/18
• 2018-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-15 Stollings Floor amendment reported
• 2018-02-15 Takubo Amendment to Stollings amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-15 Stollings Amendment as amended adopted (Roll No. 132)
• 2018-02-15 Baldwin Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 133)
• 2018-02-15 Ferns Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-16 On 3rd reading
• 2018-02-16 Unanimous consent to amend
• 2018-02-16 Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-16 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 137) passage
• 2018-02-16 Ordered to House
• 2018-02-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-19 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-03-02 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-03 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2018-03-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-06 Placed on House Calender
• 2018-03-07 On 2nd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-03-07 Placed on Special Calender
• 2018-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-07 Placed at foot of bills on 2nd reading
• 2018-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-07 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 391) amendment-failure
• 2018-03-07 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 392) amendment-failure
• 2018-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-08 Passed House (Roll No. 399) passage
• 2018-03-08 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-09 House Message received
• 2018-03-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 457)
• 2018-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-21 To Governor 3/21/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 46, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ac41d96-2a03-4c26-9a75-f6977ac80970. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).