---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
description: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "West Virginia SB 295 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 57
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e8d67f7-2a74-43d3-b778-a822874b4081"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=295&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "07dc540f36dddaf140def37c4ad3ac8de018ecc746d83eba34a67621a82612f0"
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 295 (2019) — Relating to crimes against public justice

## 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=SB295%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB295%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
3. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 717)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00717.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB295%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=295)
5. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 515)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/03-09-0515.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hamilton — primary (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-14** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 149) `passage`
- **2019-02-18** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Do pass
- **2019-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-27** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/28/19
- **2019-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 399) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-02** House Message received
- **2019-03-02** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-05** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** House appointed conferees: Hollen, Kelly, D., Miller
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **2019-03-06** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Trump, Cline, Lindsay
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-06** To conference
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** Conference report filed - House
- **2019-03-08** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2019-03-09** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 515)
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** Conference report received-House
- **2019-03-09** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 717)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** 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`
- **2019-03-09** 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 73, 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/2e8d67f7-2a74-43d3-b778-a822874b4081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).