---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protecting right to farm"
description: "Protecting right to farm"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 393"
citation: "West Virginia SB 393 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37655251-d5b5-4090-bc52-4597f2f9c7c9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=393&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1fc1514cbfc324be5b8059122708678c25d13aef7e97048f693f8f94af84e82d"
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 393 (2019) — Protecting right to farm

## 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=SB393%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB393%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB393%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=393)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sypolt — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Blair — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 140) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** 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. 425) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **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. 340)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - 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 7, 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/37655251-d5b5-4090-bc52-4597f2f9c7c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).