SB 723 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relating to clinical inpatient medical treatment centers for substance use disorder

SB 723 requires clinical inpatient medical treatment centers for substance use disorder in West Virginia to meet specific standards. Centers must ensure at least 85% of patients are West Virginia residents (verified quarterly), provide an integrated care model (including dental checkups, routine health screenings, and overdose prevention), and transition 100% of graduates to aftercare (with at least 70% placed in certified recovery residences). The bill mandates quarterly reporting to the Office of the Inspector General on patient demographics, placement rates, medication continuity, job readiness assistance, and dental services. Centers must also document barriers to job entry and help patients obtain identification documents before discharge.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 4, 2025

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What changed between versions

Committee Substitute → Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute · 5 edits

MODERATE

This bill was amended to update the legislative history, add a new sponsor (Senator Fuller), change the effective date from October 1, 2025 to July 1, 2026, and make minor technical corrections to definitions and requirements. The substantive policy requirements for clinical inpatient medical treatment centers remain largely the same, though some formatting and wording were adjusted for clarity.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the new requirements was changed from October 1, 2025 to July 1, 2026, giving facilities more time to prepare for compliance.

ELIGIBILITY

Senator Fuller was added as a co-sponsor of the bill, and the reporting committee was changed from the Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health to the Committee on Finance.

DEFINITION

Minor technical corrections were made to the definition of 'Integrated care model' to add a comma, and 'Onsite' was changed to lowercase 'chapter' for consistency.

REQUIREMENT

The definition of 'medication assisted treatment' was changed to 'medication-assisted treatment' with a hyphen for consistency, and 'including but not limited to' was changed to 'including, but not limited to' in the job readiness assessment requirement.

TECHNICAL

The explanatory note at the end of the bill was removed, which previously summarized the bill's purpose in plain language.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 2, 2025

How they voted

33–0

Passed

Total votes 33

Apr 2, 2025

D Democratic2

2 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican31

31 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Apr 3, 2025

Committee

To House Health and Human Resources

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Committee

To Health and Human Resources then Finance

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (Roll No. 283)

upper

Mar 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute for committee substitute reported

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Committee

To Finance

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

upper

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors