---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities"
description: "Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 490"
citation: "West Virginia SB 490 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sypolt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 48
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c297ead8-38d5-49ae-8cf0-a7c515108ef8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=490&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "be3960e7e2b21f3d7b02491476b12840bb9dd17a7f73c8e8bb2f48a3d3039766"
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 490 (2020) — Relating to criminal offenses against agricultural facilities

## 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=SB490%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=490)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB490%20SUB2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=490)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB490%20SUB2%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=490)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB490%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=490)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB490%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=490)
6. **SB490 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB490 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm)
7. **SB490 SFA TRUMP 2-11 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB490 SFA TRUMP 2-11 _1 adopted.htm)
8. **SB490 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB490 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-11 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **83–13** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sypolt — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Pitsenbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-15** To Agriculture and Rural Development then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** To Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-01-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/11/20
- **2020-02-12** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/12/20
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/13/20
- **2020-02-14** Having been read 2nd time 2/13/20
- **2020-02-14** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-17** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 154) `passage`
- **2020-02-17** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-18** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-02-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-29** Do pass
- **2020-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 509) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 477) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - 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 86, 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/c297ead8-38d5-49ae-8cf0-a7c515108ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).