---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants"
description: "Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 153"
citation: "West Virginia SB 153 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4ea1123-ec37-4724-b9bd-288bb117fbdb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=153&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "48e69f06127ab8f8c955e246b4d44273bbae1230dba33651b6eb705e8e6a0f0e"
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 153 (2019) — Providing greater flexibility for making infrastructure project grants

## 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=SB153%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=153)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB153%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=153)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/12/19
- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** To Technology and Infrastructure then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Committee discharged as to S. B. 153
- **2019-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 513) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `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
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 85, 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/c4ea1123-ec37-4724-b9bd-288bb117fbdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).