---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating local fire department as safe-surrender site to accept physical custody of certain children from lawful custodian"
description: "Designating local fire department as safe-surrender site to accept physical custody of certain children from lawful custodian"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 575"
citation: "West Virginia SB 575 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b0b6a01-ad09-4872-85ab-91ec6e5bca82"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=575&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "996de8def8f8ed7f4828f905efdba8cdb068683c9d2fd7c0550f25cada81ec20"
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 575 (2020) — Designating local fire department as safe-surrender site to accept physical custody of certain children from lawful custodian

## 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=SB575%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=575)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB575%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=575)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB575%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=575)
4. **SB575 HFAT HILL 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB575 HFAT HILL 2-17 adopted.htm)
5. **SB575 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB575 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Committee substitute reported
- **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. 108) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Do pass
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 570) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 538)
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 756)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** 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`
- **2020-03-25** 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 38, 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/5b0b6a01-ad09-4872-85ab-91ec6e5bca82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).