---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells"
description: "Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 120"
citation: "West Virginia SB 120 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romano"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6c5275d-237b-4b27-ae3c-40a84ecf3e76"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=120&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8880c8c5d46b07b30a7f2fe93797ca584435ffec0700e74ac5f7b2e4adab144c"
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 120 (2020) — Establishing priorities for expenditures for plugging abandoned gas or oil wells

## 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=SB120%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=120)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB120%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=120)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB120%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=120)
4. **SB120 HFAT ANDERSON 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB120 HFAT ANDERSON 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Romano — primary (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2020-02-19** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-24** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 292) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Energy
- **2020-02-27** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Do pass
- **2020-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 632) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 606) `passage`
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-18** To Governor 3/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 129, 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/f6c5275d-237b-4b27-ae3c-40a84ecf3e76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).