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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Updating WV coordinate systems"
+description: "Updating WV coordinate systems"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 540"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 540 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a11e404c-2d4a-4136-a64e-b38025a7afe6"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=540&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c6a545f316642daf60383aac3d54b3c3c9b1ef1f4b6d35eac9f663acc9079f76"
+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 540 (2024) — Updating WV coordinate systems
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb540%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=540)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb540%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=540)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb540%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=540)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woodrum — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Committee substitute reported
+- **2024-02-05** On 1st reading
+- **2024-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 105) `passage`
+- **2024-02-07** Ordered to House
+- **2024-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-02-08** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Do pass
+- **2024-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 503) `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-07** House Message received
+- **2024-03-11** To Governor 3/11/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/11/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/11/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-23** Chapter 59, 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/a11e404c-2d4a-4136-a64e-b38025a7afe6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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