republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-401.md

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Bill	Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders	Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 401	West Virginia SB 401 (2018)	bill	Insurance	enacted	Weld	3	43	2	2018-01-26	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/628bbe95-0d0f-4bd0-9d93-0c18d2160385	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=401&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	25c898337e02e0642dcc42418cceccb308cde014ea8aedf6520a43da4d1af654	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 401 (2018) — Requiring specified coverage in health benefit plans for treatment of substance abuse disorders

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• PASSAGE — 90–7 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Weld — primary (person)
• Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
• Drennan — cosponsor (person)
• Ferns — cosponsor (person)
• Romano — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-26 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-26 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-26 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 Senator Cline requests to be removed as sponsor of bill
• 2018-02-09 Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-02-09 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-26 Committee substitute reported
• 2018-02-26 Immediate consideration
• 2018-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-27 On 2nd reading
• 2018-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-28 On 3rd reading
• 2018-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-28 Passed Senate (Roll No. 230) passage
• 2018-02-28 Ordered to House
• 2018-02-28 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-28 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 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
• 2018-03-06 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2018-03-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-08 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-08 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-09 Passed House (Roll No. 452) passage
• 2018-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 475)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-10 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
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 126, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/628bbe95-0d0f-4bd0-9d93-0c18d2160385. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).