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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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103 lines
4.9 KiB
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Requiring PEIA and health insurance providers provide mental health parity"
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description: "Requiring PEIA and health insurance providers provide mental health parity"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 291"
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citation: "West Virginia SB 291 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Health"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 41
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-01-10"
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last_action: "2020-04-14"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c54eb7f-fef7-4d6d-8a2c-0d5643f7d2f5"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=291&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "205a3ea5585e780b726fb8f13bc9afa04256d333e3197b8c1fbf255b20193251"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia SB 291 (2020) — Requiring PEIA and health insurance providers provide mental health parity
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB291%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=291)
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2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB291%20SUB2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=291)
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3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB291%20SUB2%20enr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=291)
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4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB291%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=291)
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5. **SB291 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB291 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm)
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6. **SB291 HFIN AMT 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB291 HFIN AMT 3-2 adopted.htm)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- PASSAGE — **84–14** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Weld — primary (person)
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- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2020-01-10** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2020-01-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-03** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
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- **2020-02-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-14** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
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- **2020-02-17** On 1st reading
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- **2020-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-18** On 2nd reading
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- **2020-02-18** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/18/20
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- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-20** On 3rd reading
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- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 192) `passage`
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- **2020-02-20** Ordered to House
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- **2020-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2020-02-21** To Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-21** To House Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
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- **2020-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 642) `passage`
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- **2020-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
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- **2020-03-07** House Message received
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- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 566)
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- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
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- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
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- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
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- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
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- **2020-04-14** Chapter 186, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c54eb7f-fef7-4d6d-8a2c-0d5643f7d2f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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