---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable"
description: "Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 264"
citation: "West Virginia SB 264 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e1842dd-a19b-4dc9-9a25-0e6487c0a7ab"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=264&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e75d44152953749f4de64f598a07c5be1b4ccda37bbb943b8777784b842d5cb5"
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 264 (2019) — Requiring courts to order restitution to crime victims where economically practicable

## 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=SB264%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=264)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB264%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=264)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB264%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=264)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-11** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-01-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-30** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 55) `passage`
- **2019-02-01** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-03-01** 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. 587) `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 72, 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/8e1842dd-a19b-4dc9-9a25-0e6487c0a7ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).