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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations"
+description: "Relating to use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 228"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 228 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime", "Juveniles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Deeds"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-14"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96d70120-0d62-4721-8edf-23a68ad3e355"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=228&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c34eaa86e12af877fbde98499d4939e1d2b77d807cc2bae5ad9e2bbb71ebeff0"
+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 228 (2026) — Relating to use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations
+
+## 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=sb228%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=228)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb228%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=228)
+3. **sb228 hfin am adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/sb228%20hfin%20am%20adopted.htm)
+4. **sb228 hfin amt adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/sb228%20hfin%20amt%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Deeds — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-14** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-21** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-21** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-17** On 1st reading
+- **2026-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-18** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-19** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 145) `passage`
+- **2026-02-19** Ordered to House
+- **2026-02-20** House received Senate message
+- **2026-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-20** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-24** Markup Discussion
+- **2026-03-05** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-11** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-12** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2026-03-12** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-13** Passed House (Roll No. 519) `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-13** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-14** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 654)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to House
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 61, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96d70120-0d62-4721-8edf-23a68ad3e355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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