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type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs"
description: "Permitting pharmacists to inform customers of lower-cost alternative drugs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "West Virginia SB 46 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cline"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 58
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57ed60b3-4813-478b-8812-77fdbb987e04"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=46&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2ea26df75854a6a080842aaf608d956ae0f069afb94ee3beab4f1c3d12f68842"
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 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](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB46%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=46)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB46%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=46)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB46%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=46)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **300** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57ed60b3-4813-478b-8812-77fdbb987e04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).