---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played"
description: "Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 27"
citation: "West Virginia SB 27 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Gaming"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb6bc845-84dd-43e4-a43a-f9a94afdcd5e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=27&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d063a0230ee3cd248743562faf9db8f5ad567b12fa81a6b6aafb6b5718990cdf"
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 27 (2019) — Removing restrictions on where certain traditional lottery games may be played

## 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=SB27%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=27)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB27%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=27)

## Votes

- Passage — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **86–11** (pass) · 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`
- **2019-01-11** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-14** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-15** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-16** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-16** Passed Senate (Roll No. 3) `passage`
- **2019-01-16** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-30** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 59) `passage`
- **2019-02-01** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-05** House Message received
- **2019-02-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 80)
- **2019-02-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-21** To Governor 2/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-21** To Governor 2/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor 2/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 112, 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/eb6bc845-84dd-43e4-a43a-f9a94afdcd5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).