---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to require background checks"
description: "Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to require background checks"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 3007"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3007 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dec4ac7-2ec6-4c1a-8f1c-0d3ded170fa1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3007&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ef313b2874d2d3a957f68bb77ffbf43851dfb1f82787fd3fc88dd16e73fbfae3"
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 3007 (2019) — Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to require background checks

## 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=HB3007%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3007)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3007%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3007)
3. **HB3007 S GOV AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB3007 S GOV AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3007%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3007)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 238) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-22** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with 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** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 313)
- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 314) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-04** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 415)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 345)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `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 14, 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/5dec4ac7-2ec6-4c1a-8f1c-0d3ded170fa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).