---
type: "Bill"
title: "Blue Alert Plan"
description: "Blue Alert Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2446"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2446 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hollen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/221b0302-2855-4dd1-9842-9791ad458891"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2446&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f0ab7565d76de14389a883212b5b3b9cc82279fcb7ee4726a5536fbf27181f88"
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 HB 2446 (2019) — Blue Alert Plan

## 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=HB2446%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2446)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2446%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2446)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2446%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2446)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hollen — primary (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-25** Passed House (Roll No. 25) `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-28** House Message received
- **2019-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 134) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-14** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-19** To Governor 2/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-19** To Governor 2/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-20** To Governor 2/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-26** Approved by Governor 2/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 230, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/221b0302-2855-4dd1-9842-9791ad458891`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).