---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot"
description: "Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 94"
citation: "West Virginia SB 94 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/546091ff-8f31-4a56-992d-5141580f9784"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=94&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bb0b5041f808bc720ee19d94059906ba339955a506eefe4916ab5a3601bb2b70"
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 94 (2020) — Providing persons with physical disabilities ability to vote by electronic absentee ballot

## 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=SB94%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=94)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB94%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=94)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB94%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=94)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB94%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=94)
5. **SB94 SFA _1 TRUMP 1-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB94 SFA _1 TRUMP 1-10 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA FLEISCHAUER #1 1-23 — **37–58** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Pitsenbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-01-13** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-14** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-14** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-01-15** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 1) `passage`
- **2020-01-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 1)
- **2020-01-15** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Do pass
- **2020-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-23** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 34) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 36) `passage`
- **2020-01-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 37)
- **2020-01-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-24** Completed legislative action
- **2020-01-27** House Message received
- **2020-01-28** To Governor 1/28/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-01-29** To Governor 1/28/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-01-29** To Governor 1/28/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-03** Approved by Governor 2/3/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-04** Approved by Governor 2/3/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-04** Approved by Governor 2/3/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 124, 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/546091ff-8f31-4a56-992d-5141580f9784`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).