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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program"
+description: "Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 4"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 4 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-01-09"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70a5b420-3afd-460e-8a07-10382c74f3d1"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "5afc12370aa27d5abcd2751d3452805288d4fa6d83768b0448c72bcc5220dd8e"
+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 4 (2019) — Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 509)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00509.pdf)
+2. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 510)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00510.pdf)
+3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+4. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 511)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00511.pdf)
+5. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+6. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+8. **SB4 SFA _1 WELD 1-31 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB4 SFA _1 WELD 1-31 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HFA J. JEFFRIES 3-6 #1 — **23–75** (fail) · lower
+- HFA PHILLIPS ET AL 3-7 #1 — **72–22** (pass) · lower
+- HFA FAST 3-6 #1 — **40–58** (fail) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · lower
+- H GO AM 3-4 — **66–32** (pass) · lower
+- HFA WESTFALL ET AL 3-6 #1 — **56–42** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **87–11** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **30–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Weld — primary (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-09** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-09** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute reported
+- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading
+- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Floor amendment rejected (Voice vote)
+- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2019-01-30** Laid over on 3rd reading 1/30/19 with right to amend
+- **2019-01-31** Laid over on 3rd reading 1/31/19 with right to amend
+- **2019-02-01** Weld Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-01** Palumbo Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-01** Weld/Jeffries Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-01** Romano Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 51)
+- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 52) `passage`
+- **2019-02-01** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-04** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-04** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-06** Amendments pending
+- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading with restricted right to amend, Special Calender
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 507)
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 508)
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 509)
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 510)
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
+- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 511)
+- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 512) `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-08** House Message received
+- **2019-03-08** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 448)
+- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 667)
+- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-09** 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`
+- **2019-03-09** 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 60, 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/70a5b420-3afd-460e-8a07-10382c74f3d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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