---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights"
description: "Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 72"
citation: "West Virginia SB 72 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woelfel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e28efbf4-7328-4dfc-87e8-43caecb648d9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=72&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e800574fa0b4c3a40b444d7c9c07907fecd3ff803e61adc6ac067f126f3040e4"
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 72 (2019) — Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights

## 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=SB72%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=72)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB72%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=72)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB72%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=72)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Woelfel — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Judiciary `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`
- **2019-01-30** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Passed Senate (Roll No. 36) `passage`
- **2019-01-30** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 424) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 339)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 69, 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/e28efbf4-7328-4dfc-87e8-43caecb648d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).