---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating penalty for impersonating law-enforcement officer or official"
description: "Creating penalty for impersonating law-enforcement officer or official"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 392"
citation: "West Virginia SB 392 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections", "County Officials", "Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-22"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13243293-edba-4330-b047-a7e98dd4c71b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=392&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "141e32c1bec4ef6ccc15153f16aa2eb45d8916cdd9db5cff0f58ce9cd0068f5a"
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 392 (2021) — Creating penalty for impersonating law-enforcement officer or official

## 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=SB392%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=392)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB392%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=392)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB392%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=392)
4. **SB392 HJUD AM 3-31 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/SB392 HJUD AM 3-31 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hamilton — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2021-02-26** On 1st reading
- **2021-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 64) `passage`
- **2021-03-02** Ordered to House
- **2021-03-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-05** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/6
- **2021-04-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Passed House (Roll No. 497) `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-08** House Message received
- **2021-04-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 371)
- **2021-04-08** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-13** To Governor 4/13/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-19** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13243293-edba-4330-b047-a7e98dd4c71b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).