---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to imposition of sexual acts on persons incarcerated"
description: "Relating to imposition of sexual acts on persons incarcerated"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2975"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2975 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e11ca5f-c4f9-41d3-9e81-f0bcc3e79f32"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2975&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9b80a1bbc36bcb728a8e0c5e60883bd91457b4cfabd67a43139e0f65321260a5"
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 2975 (2019) — Relating to imposition of sexual acts on persons incarcerated

## 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=HB2975%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2975)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2975%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2975)
3. **HB2975 S JUD AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2975 S JUD AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2975%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2975)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 216) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-21** House Message received
- **2019-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 333) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 557)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `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 76, 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/7e11ca5f-c4f9-41d3-9e81-f0bcc3e79f32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).