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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day"
+description: "Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 37"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 37 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woelfel"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/424c5101-165c-4c71-b6f2-ae4c238c8016"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=37&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "5d5e953449144b637a5891eb7ceb1f7c9e5d8f418d783e4f71963ec2be4afc9e"
+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 SB 37 (2018) — Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB37%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=37)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB37%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=37)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB37%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=37)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **94–4** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woelfel — primary (person)
+- Ojeda — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Committee substitute reported
+- **2018-01-22** On 1st reading
+- **2018-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 16) `passage`
+- **2018-01-24** Ordered to House
+- **2018-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27** Do pass
+- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-02** Passed House (Roll No. 276) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-02** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-03** House Message received
+- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-23** Chapter 56, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/424c5101-165c-4c71-b6f2-ae4c238c8016`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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