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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation"
+description: "Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 144"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 144 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bf628c2-36de-4e0f-b7c5-a289e8d278f1"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=144&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "48184c06de0620d1093465c56b85ddd7cc3f67780117a514141575d45c44a9d9"
+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 144 (2020) — Creating misdemeanor penalty for making materially false statement in course of misdemeanor investigation
+
+## 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=SB144%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=144)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB144%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=144)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB144%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=144)
+4. **SB144 HJUD AM 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB144 HJUD AM 2-27 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **75–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sypolt — primary (person)
+- Cline — 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 Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-21** Committee substitute reported
+- **2020-01-22** On 1st reading
+- **2020-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 20) `passage`
+- **2020-01-24** Ordered to House
+- **2020-01-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 447) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 475)
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 82, 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/6bf628c2-36de-4e0f-b7c5-a289e8d278f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+