---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act"
description: "Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "West Virginia SB 3 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boso"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/665131f7-cf34-49d4-ade0-cf27fbd4f967"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "452918bdf4dc29c1f43a5886670936b7e61fd45d868dd060abe2902d043b9f63"
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 3 (2019) — Establishing WV Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act

## 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=SB3%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB3%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB3%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB3%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3)
5. **SB3 SFA _1 PALUMBO 1-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB3 SFA _1 PALUMBO 1-21 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boso — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-17** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-18** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-18** Laid over on 2nd reading 1/18/19
- **2019-01-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-21** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-22** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 15) `passage`
- **2019-01-22** Effective from passage (Roll No. 15)
- **2019-01-22** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 422) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 423)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 338)
- **2019-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 338)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 42, 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/665131f7-cf34-49d4-ade0-cf27fbd4f967`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).