---
type: "Bill"
title: "Using school facilities for funeral and memorial services for certain community members"
description: "Using school facilities for funeral and memorial services for certain community members"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "West Virginia SB 154 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)", "Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99cb3165-d620-489f-a1d4-0a0e27687559"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=154&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "256755d32121cb74cdbbec7d21b0ba4de485503e3edfea94ffe123cefef323f8"
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 154 (2019) — Using school facilities for funeral and memorial services for certain community members

## 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=SB154%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=154)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB154%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=154)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB154%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=154)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-04** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 81) `passage`
- **2019-02-06** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Do pass
- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 443) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **2019-03-06** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 365)
- **2019-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 559) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 90, 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/99cb3165-d620-489f-a1d4-0a0e27687559`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).