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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Protecting right to farm"
+description: "Protecting right to farm"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 393"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 393 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-22"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37655251-d5b5-4090-bc52-4597f2f9c7c9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=393&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1fc1514cbfc324be5b8059122708678c25d13aef7e97048f693f8f94af84e82d"
+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 393 (2019) — Protecting right to farm
+
+## 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=SB393%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB393%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB393%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sypolt — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Beach — cosponsor (person)
+- Blair — cosponsor (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** Committee substitute reported
+- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-15** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 140) `passage`
+- **2019-02-15** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 425) `passage`
+- **2019-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-05** House Message received
+- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 340)
+- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 7, 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/37655251-d5b5-4090-bc52-4597f2f9c7c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+