---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing Board of Dentistry create specialty licenses"
description: "Allowing Board of Dentistry create specialty licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "West Virginia SB 400 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romano"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589cfbca-1b27-483b-88c1-0086a0548b39"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=400&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e53fbabfa225d91d44a8171bf263e59e9d6430a5d89ac395437ef78ce3599a30"
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 400 (2019) — Allowing Board of Dentistry create specialty licenses

## 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=SB400%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=400)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB400%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=400)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB400%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=400)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romano — primary (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-23** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Reported do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 216) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** 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** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 523) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 415)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **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`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 188, 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/589cfbca-1b27-483b-88c1-0086a0548b39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).