West Virginia Senate Bill 474 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: Passed on May 4 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-04 - Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to codify the learned intermediary doctrine, which recognizes: (1) That prescribing physicians are in a superior position to impart drug warning to patients and provide independent medical decisions as to whether use of the drug is appropriate for treatment of a particular patient; (2) That drug manufacturers lack effective means to communicate directly with each patient; and (3) That imposing a duty to warn upon drug manufacturers would unduly interfere with the physician-patient relationship. This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Relating to nonresident liability claims for prescription drug warnings

Sen. Robert Beach [D]	Sen. Larry Edgell [D]	Sen. Douglas Facemire [D]	Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]
Sen. Orphy Klempa [D]	Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]	Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]
Sen. Bob Williams [D]	Sen. Mark Wills [D]	Sen. Jack Yost [D]

2011-03-12 - House - Effect July 1, 2011 (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2011-03-12 - House - Passage (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-04		Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2011
2011-03-18		Approved by Governor 4/4/11 - Senate Journal
2011-04-04		Approved by Governor 4/4/11
2011-03-18		Approved by Governor 4/4/11 - House Journal
2011-03-18		To Governor 3/29/11 - House Journal
2011-03-18		To Governor 3/29/11 - Senate Journal
2011-03-29		To Governor 3/29/11
2011-03-12		Completed legislative action
2011-03-12		House Message received
2011-03-12		Communicated to Senate
2011-03-12		Effective July 1, 2011 (Roll No. 397)
2011-03-12		Passed House (Roll No. 396)
2011-03-12		Read 3rd time
2011-03-12		On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
2011-03-11		Read 2nd time
2011-03-11		On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
2011-03-10		Read 1st time
2011-03-10		From House Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
2011-03-09		Do pass
2011-03-01		To House Judiciary
2011-03-01		Do pass, but first to Judiciary
2011-02-23		To House Health and Human Resources
2011-02-23		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2011-02-23		Introduced in House
2011-02-23		Ordered to House
2011-02-23		Effective July 1, 2011 (Roll No. 4)
2011-02-23		Passed Senate (Roll No. 4)
2011-02-23		Read 3rd time
2011-02-23		On 3rd reading
2011-02-22		Read 2nd time
2011-02-22		On 2nd reading
2011-02-21		Read 1st time
2011-02-21		On 1st reading
2011-02-18		Committee substitute reported
2011-02-09		To Judiciary
2011-02-09		Introduced in Senate
2011-02-09		To Judiciary
2011-02-09		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
55	7	23a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=474&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb474%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=474
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB474%20SUB1.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=474
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB474%20SUB1.htm&yr=&sesstype=&i=474
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB474%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=474
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bulletin_Board/2011/RS/House/Votes/00396.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bulletin_Board/2011/RS/House/Votes/00397.pdf