---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to sale of homemade food items"
description: "Relating to sale of homemade food items"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 285"
citation: "West Virginia SB 285 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5771f59c-fc20-4c88-8a4b-067832fa8b44"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=285&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "42ecd7e129490a1577c5048121249d78b4461051bb47c37c89bfe84325701a10"
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 285 (2019) — Relating to sale of homemade food items

## 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=SB285%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=285)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB285%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=285)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB285%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=285)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB285%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=285)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sypolt — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-14** To Agriculture and Rural Development then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** To Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
- **2019-01-25** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 127) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 487) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 388)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - 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 3, 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/5771f59c-fc20-4c88-8a4b-067832fa8b44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).