---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration"
description: "Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "West Virginia SB 271 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e26308d-52f6-4b75-a82c-f42436c71767"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=271&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ffa410f4c5be33cf11fc728bcc33792b2cab5badc11f082a59e53cce78cf7317"
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 271 (2018) — Creating centralized Shared Services Section of Department of Administration

## 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=SB271%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=271)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB271%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=271)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB271%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=271)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-15** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-15** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2018-01-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-09** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 83) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-12** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2018-02-21** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 443) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 471)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/21/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 94, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e26308d-52f6-4b75-a82c-f42436c71767`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).