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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to a court's consideration of the expression of a preference by a child in certain child custody matters"
+description: "Relating to a court's consideration of the expression of a preference by a child in certain child custody matters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 3039"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3039 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Domestic Relations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9038ad99-26b1-40a2-8f8b-2673fc57cbad"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3039&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "494ad7e53803bcccaa1f383916cdc7831c5ba766604667a75f36a65ba5f8186e"
+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 HB 3039 (2020) — Relating to a court's consideration of the expression of a preference by a child in certain child custody matters
+
+## 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=hb3039%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3039)
+2. **HB3039 HFAT SHOTT 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB3039 HFAT SHOTT 2-27 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB3039 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB3039 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB3039 S JUD AMT _1 2-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB3039 S JUD AMT _1 2-5 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3039%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3039)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **87–11** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **83–16** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Foster — primary (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-10** Do pass
+- **2020-01-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-15** Passed House (Roll No. 3) `passage`
+- **2020-01-15** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-07** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 115) `passage`
+- **2020-02-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-02-27** House received Senate message
+- **2020-02-27** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 377)
+- **2020-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 632)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9038ad99-26b1-40a2-8f8b-2673fc57cbad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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