WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Engrossed
Senate Bill 939
By Senators Helton, Deeds, Fuller, Takubo, Weld, and Woelfel
[Originating in the Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health; reported March 27, 2025]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated ยง16B-13-4a, relating to testing for substance use disorder; and setting forth testing guidelines for office-based medication-assisted treatment facilities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## ARTICLE 13. MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT PROGRAM LICENSING ACT.
(a) Upon being admitted to a drug program, the provider shall perform a comprehensive, quantitative, direct observation drug test.
(b) After this time and continuing for six weeks, a direct observation, quantitative test must be performed every two weeks for six weeks.
(c) For the next year, the patient shall undergo a direct observation, qualitative or quantitative test every 45 days while in treatment.
(d) After the first year of treatment, the patient shall undergo a direct observation, qualitative or quantitative test every six months thereafter until discharge from the program.
(e) At any point the provider wants to assess compliance, the patient must be willing to produce a direct observation qualitative or quantitative test upon the provider request.