---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program"
description: "Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "West Virginia SB 4 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 54
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70a5b420-3afd-460e-8a07-10382c74f3d1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5afc12370aa27d5abcd2751d3452805288d4fa6d83768b0448c72bcc5220dd8e"
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 4 (2019) — Relating generally to Municipal Home Rule Program

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 509)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00509.pdf)
2. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 510)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00510.pdf)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
4. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 511)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00511.pdf)
5. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
6. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB4%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=4)
8. **SB4 SFA _1 WELD 1-31 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB4 SFA _1 WELD 1-31 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- HFA J. JEFFRIES 3-6 #1 — **23–75** (fail) · lower
- HFA PHILLIPS ET AL 3-7 #1 — **72–22** (pass) · lower
- HFA FAST 3-6 #1 — **40–58** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · lower
- H GO AM 3-4 — **66–32** (pass) · lower
- HFA WESTFALL ET AL 3-6 #1 — **56–42** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **87–11** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **30–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — 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`
- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Floor amendment rejected (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2019-01-30** Laid over on 3rd reading 1/30/19 with right to amend
- **2019-01-31** Laid over on 3rd reading 1/31/19 with right to amend
- **2019-02-01** Weld Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-01** Palumbo Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-01** Weld/Jeffries Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-01** Romano Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 51)
- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 52) `passage`
- **2019-02-01** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Amendments pending
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading with restricted right to amend, Special Calender
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 507)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 508)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 509)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 510)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 511)
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 512) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 448)
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 667)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - 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 60, 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/70a5b420-3afd-460e-8a07-10382c74f3d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).