---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to minimum wage and maximum hour standards"
description: "Relating to minimum wage and maximum hour standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 377"
citation: "West Virginia SB 377 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82f45297-82b8-4847-a86e-1a0b119353b3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=377&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "57db661536787a95cdfaf8f0b4ee80b2034646bde319faf090e663bd2217762d"
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 377 (2019) — Relating to minimum wage and maximum hour standards

## 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=SB377%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=377)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB377%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=377)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **63–32** (pass) · lower
- HFA ROBINSON 2-15 #1 — **44–56** (fail) · lower
- HFA LOVEJOY 2-14 — **46–54** (fail) · lower
- HFA ROBINSON 2-15 #2 — **44–55** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **31–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 74) `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/15/19
- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/18/19
- **2019-02-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 196)
- **2019-02-18** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 197)
- **2019-02-18** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 198)
- **2019-02-18** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 204) `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-20** House Message received
- **2019-02-20** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 168)
- **2019-02-20** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-25** To Governor 2/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-25** To Governor 2/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 157, 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/82f45297-82b8-4847-a86e-1a0b119353b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).