---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish"
description: "Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2540"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2540 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harshbarger"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/591cde38-be84-42c7-906a-680f7bf8fef9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2540&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ff59dea733a90b0df82828b02f1374b2abac6d847aebc34454f3bd3bcd0621bc"
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 2540 (2019) — Prohibiting the waste of game animals, game birds or game fish

## 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=HB2540%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2540)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2540%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2540)
3. **HB2540 S JUD AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2540 S JUD AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2540%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2540)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **79–17** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **79–20** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **22–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harshbarger — primary (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Brown, N. — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-21** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 261) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** To Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading to Judiciary
- **2019-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 507) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Judiciary Title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2019-03-09** Floor Title amendment adopted
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 732)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 545)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 178, 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/591cde38-be84-42c7-906a-680f7bf8fef9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).