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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees"
+description: "Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 324"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 324 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-16"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85b40ad7-d8be-4214-becf-1eafbdb3855c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=324&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "0b67030ce399e45e05255fbeed84bd9a983c94efb74d180adbade8acb21c3960"
+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 324 (2019) — Relating to Commissioner of Agriculture employees
+
+## 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=SB324%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=324)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB324%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=324)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sypolt — primary (person)
+- Beach — cosponsor (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-30** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-31** On 1st reading
+- **2019-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-01** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 68) `passage`
+- **2019-02-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 68)
+- **2019-02-04** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-05** Reference dispensed
+- **2019-02-05** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 89) `passage`
+- **2019-02-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 90)
+- **2019-02-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-02-08** House Message received
+- **2019-02-15** To Governor 2/15/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-18** To Governor 2/15/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-18** To Governor 2/15/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 5, 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/85b40ad7-d8be-4214-becf-1eafbdb3855c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+