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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
+description: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 295"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 295 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 57
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-14"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e8d67f7-2a74-43d3-b778-a822874b4081"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=295&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "07dc540f36dddaf140def37c4ad3ac8de018ecc746d83eba34a67621a82612f0"
+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 295 (2019) — Relating to crimes against public justice
+
+## 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=SB295%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB295%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
+3. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 717)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00717.pdf)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB295%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
+5. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 515)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/03-09-0515.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hamilton — primary (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Committee substitute reported
+- **2019-02-14** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-18** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 149) `passage`
+- **2019-02-18** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-25** Do pass
+- **2019-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-27** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/28/19
+- **2019-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 399) `passage`
+- **2019-03-01** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-02** House Message received
+- **2019-03-02** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-02** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-05** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-05** House appointed conferees: Hollen, Kelly, D., Miller
+- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-06** House Message received
+- **2019-03-06** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Trump, Cline, Lindsay
+- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-06** To conference
+- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-08** Conference report filed - House
+- **2019-03-08** Conference report filed - Senate
+- **2019-03-09** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 515)
+- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-09** Conference report received-House
+- **2019-03-09** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 717)
+- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-09** 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`
+- **2019-03-09** 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 73, 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/2e8d67f7-2a74-43d3-b778-a822874b4081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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