---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to DEP standards of water quality and effluent limitations"
description: "Relating to DEP standards of water quality and effluent limitations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "West Virginia SB 290 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d321cace-6d81-4186-896c-b8183abcc6ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=290&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "befd69c64bfec0b7693e3423cf32fc44c5f25cf23a0764c27667a74a8ba506cc"
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 290 (2018) — Relating to DEP standards of water quality and effluent limitations

## 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=SB290%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=290)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB290%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=290)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB290%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=290)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **88–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-16** To Energy, Industry and Mining then Judiciary
- **2018-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-16** To Energy, Industry and Mining
- **2018-01-22** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Committee substitute reported
- **2018-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-09** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-12** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/12/18
- **2018-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 105) `passage`
- **2018-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Do pass
- **2018-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 401) `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** To Governor 3/19/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 85, 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/d321cace-6d81-4186-896c-b8183abcc6ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).