---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations"
description: "Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 402"
citation: "West Virginia SB 402 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8394b60c-5f2f-4682-9e6f-7b3770d2b7fc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=402&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "00f0d3f7a20cb334076efbadbe46e828d031b203b4affdb47a46d3fd0d96de7f"
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 402 (2019) — Authorizing Division of Forestry investigate and enforce timber theft violations

## 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=SB402%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=402)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB402%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=402)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB402%20SUB2%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=402)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB402%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=402)
5. **SB402 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB402 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-8 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sypolt — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-23** To Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 186) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** 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. 524) `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. 425)
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 669)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 524)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 74, 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/8394b60c-5f2f-4682-9e6f-7b3770d2b7fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).