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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to allocation of child protective workers in counties based upon population of county"
+description: "Relating to allocation of child protective workers in counties based upon population of county"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 273"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 273 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 53
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-18"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2579f65f-f2ac-40d1-ac64-7ea20d5e1e9f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=273&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b89880754235dd23c30c7c0f0eca4adbb962822ef5a5845718bf0c6de535a937"
+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 273 (2023) — Relating to allocation of child protective workers in counties based upon population of county
+
+## 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=sb273%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=273)
+2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb273%20sub2.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=273)
+3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb273%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=273)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb273%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=273)
+5. **sb273 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb273 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **sb273 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb273 sfat takubo _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Trump — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-18** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-27** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2023-01-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-17** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
+- **2023-02-20** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-21** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-22** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 230) `passage`
+- **2023-02-22** Ordered to House
+- **2023-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-06** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/7
+- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/8
+- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-08** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 580)
+- **2023-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 594) `passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 595)
+- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 572)
+- **2023-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 572)
+- **2023-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate title amendment
+- **2023-03-11** Passed House (Roll No. 763) `passage`
+- **2023-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 766)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 59, 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/2579f65f-f2ac-40d1-ac64-7ea20d5e1e9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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