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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating Green Alert Plan"
+description: "Creating Green Alert Plan"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 289"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 289 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acfe1f06-0354-4f95-8b31-58864d62878f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=289&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "6e23942fff2c6ae9eed0d0f0b72fb8d2341e53130e1fb7cb076284c8f907a98b"
+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 289 (2020) — Creating Green Alert Plan
+
+## 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=SB289%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=289)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB289%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=289)
+3. **SB289 HFIN AM 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB289 HFIN AM 2-28 adopted.htm)
+4. **SB289 HFIN AMT 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB289 HFIN AMT 2-28 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Weld — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-10** To Military then Finance
+- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-10** To Military
+- **2020-01-22** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-22** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading
+- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 26) `passage`
+- **2020-01-27** Ordered to House
+- **2020-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-28** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2020-02-27** To House Finance `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
+- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-04** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 522)
+- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 523) `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 476)
+- **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`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 348, 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/acfe1f06-0354-4f95-8b31-58864d62878f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+