---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing expenditure of surplus funds by Wyoming County Commission"
description: "Authorizing expenditure of surplus funds by Wyoming County Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "West Virginia SB 16 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local and Special Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cline"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54e4bdc1-f06d-4570-a180-b4d579508e1e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=16&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5facce32992618cf046dc0d77b2de01ae88df6cd9061294a983d2c6d4f8aa0ab"
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 16 (2019) — Authorizing expenditure of surplus funds by Wyoming County Commission

## 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=SB16%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=16)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB16%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=16)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cline — primary (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (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`
- **2019-02-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 92) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Do pass
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 578) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** 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`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 266, 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/54e4bdc1-f06d-4570-a180-b4d579508e1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).