---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to hunting licenses"
description: "Relating to hunting licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2709"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2709 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6ae7ba5-993e-46e3-9706-3f726250f5b9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2709&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8f650726de0bd4ff94fea9d3234758bc19887716811c66652ebc33f7712a9a4d"
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 2709 (2019) — Relating to hunting licenses

## 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=hb2709%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2709)
2. **HB2709 JUD AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2709 JUD AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2709 S JUD AMT _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2709 S JUD AMT _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2709%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2709)

## Votes

- Passage — **26–8** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkinson — primary (person)
- Brown, N. — cosponsor (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Swartzmiller — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-29** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-29** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Do pass
- **2019-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 174) `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-15** House Message received
- **2019-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **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 with amended title (Roll No. 483) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Motion to insist rejected
- **2019-03-09** Motion to reconsider action rejected (Roll No. 552)
- **2019-03-09** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 553)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 179, 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/c6ae7ba5-993e-46e3-9706-3f726250f5b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).