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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules"
+description: "Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 163"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 163 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-01-10"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=163&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ea50fc91d081062cb2038760c2e5c6ddc85c65d3ffbc2828c3cfa8b6fb8c1ada"
+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 163 (2019) — Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules
+
+## 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=SB163%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB163%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB163%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **20–12** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **78–22** (pass) · lower
+- HFA HANSEN ET AL 3-4 — **34–64** (fail) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **90–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maynard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-10** To Energy, Industry and Mining then Judiciary
+- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-10** To Energy, Industry and Mining
+- **2019-01-16** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute reported
+- **2019-02-05** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 89) `passage`
+- **2019-02-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 90)
+- **2019-02-07** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-08** To Energy then Judiciary
+- **2019-02-08** To House Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-20** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2019-02-20** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-01** Do pass
+- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 433) `amendment-failure`
+- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 444) `passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 445)
+- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-06** House Message received
+- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 160, 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/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+