---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "West Virginia SB 163 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=163&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ea50fc91d081062cb2038760c2e5c6ddc85c65d3ffbc2828c3cfa8b6fb8c1ada"
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 163 (2019) — Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules

## 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=SB163%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB163%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB163%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=163)

## Votes

- Passage — **20–12** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **78–22** (pass) · lower
- HFA HANSEN ET AL 3-4 — **34–64** (fail) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **90–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Energy, Industry and Mining then Judiciary
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Energy, Industry and Mining
- **2019-01-16** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-05** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-07** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 89) `passage`
- **2019-02-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 90)
- **2019-02-07** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** To Energy then Judiciary
- **2019-02-08** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-20** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Do pass
- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 433) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 444) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 445)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **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`
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 160, 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/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).