---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture"
description: "Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 463"
citation: "West Virginia SB 463 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/475f9a38-1331-4d4a-8365-bbe03327dfda"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=463&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bcbab36f072ab58eb6d38b83eb84ba39bbe952a621705c449fbb6ebf4a2d4b57"
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 463 (2018) — Establishing group to examine benefits and need of transferring milk rules and regulations from DHHR to Agriculture

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB463%20enr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=463)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB463%20ORG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=463)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **27–3** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Sypolt — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Ojeda — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** Originating in Senate Agriculture and Rural Development
- **2018-02-01** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-02** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2018-02-06** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-07** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **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`
- **2018-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 407) `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-09** House Message received
- **2018-03-09** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 459)
- **2018-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 459)
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 508)
- **2018-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 509)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **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`
- **2018-03-10** 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 197, 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/475f9a38-1331-4d4a-8365-bbe03327dfda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).