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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Waiving occupational licensing fees for low-income individuals and military families"
+description: "Waiving occupational licensing fees for low-income individuals and military families"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 396"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 396 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6b05dea-ec6b-4337-9a24-d68560313458"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=396&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "236953a68ef22e610d58b92a46eee94e47c7d94af5b74c30dc41500439a63e86"
+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 396 (2019) — Waiving occupational licensing fees for low-income individuals and military families
+
+## 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=SB396%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=396)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB396%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=396)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB396%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=396)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tarr — primary (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-23** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-20** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2019-02-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-25** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-27** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 266) `passage`
+- **2019-02-27** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-28** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-28** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-04** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2019-03-04** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Do pass
+- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 596) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-09** 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`
+- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 187, 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/d6b05dea-ec6b-4337-9a24-d68560313458`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+