---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to court-ordered community service"
description: "Relating to court-ordered community service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 311"
citation: "West Virginia SB 311 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clements"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8cfb94d-cce9-4477-b5ff-b78e81da2fe9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=311&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bb61d8dfaed656b11d8037c4e26e03c22a2b654fcbe12985c015f980b8f2a97c"
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 311 (2020) — Relating to court-ordered community service

## 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=SB311%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=311)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB311%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=311)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB311%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=311)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clements — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-01-22** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-23** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-24** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 21) `passage`
- **2020-01-24** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** Do pass
- **2020-02-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 90) `passage`
- **2020-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-06** House Message received
- **2020-02-10** To Governor 2/10/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-11** To Governor 2/10/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-12** To Governor 2/10/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-14** Approved by Governor 2/14/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-17** Approved by Governor 2/14/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 96, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8cfb94d-cce9-4477-b5ff-b78e81da2fe9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).