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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing leashed dogs to track wounded elk, turkey, and wild boar when hunting"
+description: "Allowing leashed dogs to track wounded elk, turkey, and wild boar when hunting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 200"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 200 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-13"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64660999-6c0e-4643-ab1b-23641d70fbf3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=200&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "bcde2e77c839263555e8c2b8bf6ab9eee2c7cd5dfd381d91dccea54636391881"
+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 200 (2023) — Allowing leashed dogs to track wounded elk, turkey, and wild boar when hunting
+
+## 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=sb200%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=200)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=200)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=200)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=200)
+5. **sb200 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb200 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm)
+6. **sb200 hjud am. _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb200 hjud am. _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
+7. **sb200 sfa hamilton _1 1-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb200 sfa hamilton _1 1-19 adopted.htm)
+8. **sb200 sfat hamilton _2 1-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb200 sfat hamilton _2 1-23 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hamilton — primary (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-13** To Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-13** To Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Committee substitute reported
+- **2023-01-18** On 1st reading
+- **2023-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-19** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-01-19** Laid over on 2nd reading 1/19/2023
+- **2023-01-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-20** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-01-23** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-23** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 62) `passage`
+- **2023-01-23** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-24** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-21** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2023-02-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 640) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 577)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64660999-6c0e-4643-ab1b-23641d70fbf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+