---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting Alcohol Beverage Control Administration request assistance of local law enforcement"
description: "Permitting Alcohol Beverage Control Administration request assistance of local law enforcement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 561"
citation: "West Virginia SB 561 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Liquors and Beers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 49
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32acde13-9dff-4bac-b65b-2eb26e4d4c50"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=561&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4933fdc4259fe84f71eadadf466601e843777f431dc4e699daba3c3f2961cab3"
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 561 (2019) — Permitting Alcohol Beverage Control Administration request assistance of local law enforcement

## 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=SB561%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=561)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB561%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=561)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB561%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=561)
4. **SB561 SFA _1 TAKUBO 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB561 SFA _1 TAKUBO 3-8 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA SPONAUGLE 3-7 — **36–62** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **71–28** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **80–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-23** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 246) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To House Judiciary `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** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 574)
- **2019-03-07** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 617) `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. 490)
- **2019-03-09** 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. 742)
- **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. 556)
- **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 17, 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/32acde13-9dff-4bac-b65b-2eb26e4d4c50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).