---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to criminal offense expungement"
description: "Relating generally to criminal offense expungement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "West Virginia SB 152 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d837ebe-0bd7-4770-b9df-7f04d53cb4e6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=152&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3464027d9805a6ce31f5802ef9ac8da0da477b6a29b209cad1bd27556cc239cc"
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 SB 152 (2019) — Relating generally to criminal offense expungement

## 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=SB152%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=152)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB152%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=152)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB152%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=152)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB152%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=152)
5. **SB152 SFA _1 TRUMP 1-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB152 SFA _1 TRUMP 1-17 adopted.htm)
6. **SB152 SFA _2 TRUMP 1-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB152 SFA _2 TRUMP 1-21 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-17** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-18** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-18** Laid over on 2nd reading 1/18/19
- **2019-01-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-21** Trump Floor amendments #1 adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-21** Trump Floor amendment #2 adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-22** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 17) `passage`
- **2019-01-22** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 586) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 521)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 71, 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/5d837ebe-0bd7-4770-b9df-7f04d53cb4e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).