---
type: "Bill"
title: "Including possession of known stolen property in the offense of receiving or transferring stolen property"
description: "Including possession of known stolen property in the offense of receiving or transferring stolen property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 2602"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2602 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06f3182e-1098-4a37-ad94-eecae58cd07e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2602&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "088c4e55288fd40647028c024dbf847f0684c54629ab8f3e70f33e8fbc775517"
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 HB 2602 (2020) — Including possession of known stolen property in the offense of receiving or transferring stolen property

## 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=HB2602%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2602)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2602%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2602)
3. **HB2602 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB2602 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2602 S JUD AMT _1 2-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB2602 S JUD AMT _1 2-6 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2602%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2602)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Brown, N. — cosponsor (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-17** Passed House (Roll No. 9) `passage`
- **2020-01-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 132) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-13** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 163)
- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-14** House Message received
- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-19** To Governor 2/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 89, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06f3182e-1098-4a37-ad94-eecae58cd07e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).