---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to distributions from State Excess Lottery Fund"
description: "Relating to distributions from State Excess Lottery Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "West Virginia SB 13 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Gaming"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65e85a2d-5589-4bb8-a477-d91ddefebe3a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=13&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "08e2618d22f1e0b47f7761050d7c569488e7f97d308745729be7d342ffd6d895"
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 13 (2019) — Relating to distributions from State Excess Lottery Fund

## 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=SB13%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=13)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB13%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=13)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB13%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=13)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB13%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=13)
5. **SB13 SFA BLAIR _1 2-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB13 SFA BLAIR _1 2-11 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **86–10** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA P. MARTIN #1 2-21 — **19–78** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-08** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/8/19
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 113) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 242) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 253) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-02-23** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 191)
- **2019-02-23** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-23** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-25** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 111, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65e85a2d-5589-4bb8-a477-d91ddefebe3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).