---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to provisional licensure of social workers"
description: "Relating to provisional licensure of social workers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "West Virginia SB 312 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da089855-e2b7-42ee-9f36-ea18054e3e10"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=312&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b1cf948fd5265f7042b772280b39d5b478ae8178484cabbe06fdcd29c5f08e3a"
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 312 (2020) — Relating to provisional licensure of social workers

## 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=SB312%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=312)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB312%20SUB2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=312)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB312%20SUB2%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=312)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB312%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=312)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB312%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=312)
6. **SB312 SFA _1 MARONEY 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB312 SFA _1 MARONEY 2-25 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-13** To Children and Families then Health and Human Resources
- **2020-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-13** To Children and Families
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute reported, but first to Health and Human Resources
- **2020-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 297) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Do pass
- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 565) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **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`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 240, 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/da089855-e2b7-42ee-9f36-ea18054e3e10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).