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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards"
+description: "Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 149"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 149 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Swope"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-10"
+last_action: "2024-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5ed2d1a-26f6-451f-843e-984eb28eb7e4"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=149&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "14f58f95b67d287db4855bea430ac56d551a1fb721536d5b7b7c46147466cbd8"
+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 149 (2024) — Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb149%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=149)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb149%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=149)
+3. **sb149 h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb149%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+4. **sb149 hfat phillips 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb149%20hfat%20phillips%203-6%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **89–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Swope — primary (person)
+- Boley — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2024-01-10** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-01-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-11** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-01-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-12** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-01-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 10) `passage`
+- **2024-01-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 10)
+- **2024-01-12** Ordered to House
+- **2024-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-15** To Political Subdivisions then Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-15** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-26** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-26** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-06** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2024-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 537) `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 538)
+- **2024-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-08** House Message received
+- **2024-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 463)
+- **2024-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 463)
+- **2024-03-08** Communicated to House
+- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-14** To Governor 3/14/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-23** Chapter 62, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5ed2d1a-26f6-451f-843e-984eb28eb7e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+