---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing Military Service Members Court program"
description: "Establishing Military Service Members Court program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "West Virginia SB 40 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/963cdecc-227f-4ece-9f53-0b74eb1703cc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=40&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "cb5aa664f1963647024a5550b848a334f01cc3fcaada7e81a8b139cd8486adfa"
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 40 (2019) — Establishing Military Service Members Court program

## 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=SB40%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=40)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB40%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=40)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB40%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=40)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **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. 124) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 582) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 472)
- **2019-03-09** 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. 726)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **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 3/25/19 - 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 78, 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/963cdecc-227f-4ece-9f53-0b74eb1703cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).