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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act"
description: "Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4610"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4610 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-20"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8db47693-c263-480a-9a65-515c95a6d4de"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4610&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b78e0db731cd4e86b24ca15e1662186c8b17c7ef4d7d3e8de6a425736a797d81"
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 HB 4610 (2026) — Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4610%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4610)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4610%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4610)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4610%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4610)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4610%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4610)
5. **hb4610 s hhr am _ 3-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4610%20s%20hhr%20am%20_%203-1%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **960** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hornby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-20** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-20** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Markup Discussion
- **2026-01-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-01-23** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2026-01-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-29** Passed House (Roll No. 31) `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-01-30** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Reported do pass, as amended by Health and Human Resources `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** HHR com. amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 485) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 639)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 183, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8db47693-c263-480a-9a65-515c95a6d4de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).