---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "West Virginia SB 187 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72c321c3-7807-46b1-b451-69dd585fd48a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=187&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4e6cfef62b07c80bbf1f6c6c9bf1728ea91f835cfdf2cbba3d1bd1f24312482d"
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 187 (2019) — Authorizing Department of Revenue to 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=SB187%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=187)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB187%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=187)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB187%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=187)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **92–6** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–5** (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 Finance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-29** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 44) `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 44)
- **2019-01-31** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-01** To Finance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** Do pass
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 485) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 486)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - 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 163, 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/72c321c3-7807-46b1-b451-69dd585fd48a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).