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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants"
+description: "Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 153"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 153 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development", "Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-10"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4ea1123-ec37-4724-b9bd-288bb117fbdb"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=153&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "48e69f06127ab8f8c955e246b4d44273bbae1230dba33651b6eb705e8e6a0f0e"
+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 153 (2019) — Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB153%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=153)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB153%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=153)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffries — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-10** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-07** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-12** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/12/19
+- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) `passage`
+- **2019-02-13** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-14** To Technology and Infrastructure then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-26** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2019-02-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Committee discharged as to S. B. 153
+- **2019-03-05** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 513) `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-08** House Message received
+- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4ea1123-ec37-4724-b9bd-288bb117fbdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+