---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the election prohibition zone"
description: "Relating to the election prohibition zone"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2547"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2547 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shott"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a670cd5-6b16-4c96-9cef-6e6c615e5fa2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2547&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3c1dfb883077849208f546bb1ddf8905c87d36f4f96f7380d16eb21eb544f04f"
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 2547 (2019) — Relating to the election prohibition zone

## 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=hb2547%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2547)
2. **HB2547 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2547 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2547 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2547 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2547 S JUD AMT _1 2-25adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2547 S JUD AMT _1 2-25adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2547%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2547)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **20–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shott — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Do pass
- **2019-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 32) `passage`
- **2019-01-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-29** House Message received
- **2019-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-02** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 323) `passage`
- **2019-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-04** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 344)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 104, 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/3a670cd5-6b16-4c96-9cef-6e6c615e5fa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).