---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing limit for settling claims against DOH"
description: "Increasing limit for settling claims against DOH"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 539"
citation: "West Virginia SB 539 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acdacbb8-4c19-4dd4-8d76-f048efc064ee"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=539&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2d8ca1dba2e68e3c44e74d1482981d829dbc4814e93407e52f7c3da30471b472"
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 539 (2018) — Increasing limit for settling claims against DOH

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB539%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=539)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB539%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=539)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 196) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Do pass
- **2018-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 321) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-06** House Message received
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 38, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acdacbb8-4c19-4dd4-8d76-f048efc064ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).