---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating State Parks and Recreation Endowment Fund"
description: "Creating State Parks and Recreation Endowment Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 517"
citation: "West Virginia SB 517 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ecd902c-c05d-410e-b22c-b4cc25996ed7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=517&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9304dde5b716d1195c15ba4ca338fc9ffbab279283dbdcad8d8e977ae0ee5f49"
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 517 (2020) — Creating State Parks and Recreation Endowment Fund

## 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=SB517%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=517)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB517%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=517)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB517%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=517)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hamilton — primary (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-16** To Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2020-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-07** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/7/20
- **2020-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 107) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 107)
- **2020-02-11** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Do pass
- **2020-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **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. 646) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 647)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - 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 232, 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/0ecd902c-c05d-410e-b22c-b4cc25996ed7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).