republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-46.md

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Bill	Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs	Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 46	West Virginia SB 46 (2018)	bill	Health	enacted	Cline	3	58	3	2018-01-10	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/57ed60b3-4813-478b-8812-77fdbb987e04	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=46&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2ea26df75854a6a080842aaf608d956ae0f069afb94ee3beab4f1c3d12f68842	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 46 (2018) — Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs

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 — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 30–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cline — primary (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-10 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-10 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Committee substitute reported
• 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
• 2018-01-31 On 3rd reading
• 2018-01-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-31 Passed Senate (Roll No. 34) 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
• 2018-02-14 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2018-02-14 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-27 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2018-02-28 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-01 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-01 Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
• 2018-03-01 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-02 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-02 Passed House (Roll No. 277) passage
• 2018-03-02 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-02 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-05 House Message received
• 2018-03-05 Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
• 2018-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-06 House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
• 2018-03-06 House appointed conferees: Sobonya, Hollen, Byrd
• 2018-03-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-07 House Message received
• 2018-03-07 Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Takubo, Cline, Stollings
• 2018-03-07 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-07 To conference
• 2018-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-09 Conference report filed - House
• 2018-03-09 Conference report filed - Senate
• 2018-03-10 Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 487)
• 2018-03-10 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 Conference report received-House
• 2018-03-10 House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 532)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 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
• 2018-03-21 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 123, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57ed60b3-4813-478b-8812-77fdbb987e04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).