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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state"
+description: "Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 550"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 550 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1b3e06a-af0e-4443-b934-da952c9626a3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=550&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "e79351bb48b954964fd81a8612c0928ac40a162326746aef235e512ed9583c40"
+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 550 (2019) — Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state
+
+## 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=SB550%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=550)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB550%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=550)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blair — primary (person)
+- Boley — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Romano — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **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. 153) `passage`
+- **2019-02-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 153)
+- **2019-02-18** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-19** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-19** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **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`
+- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 614) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 615)
+- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-09** House Message received
+- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 531)
+- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 531)
+- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **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`
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 45, 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/d1b3e06a-af0e-4443-b934-da952c9626a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+