---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities"
description: "Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "West Virginia SB 323 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Constitutional Amendments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baldwin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a82512dd-ca49-4dac-b8fc-bf16c1ab8a80"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=323&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3da27b558e7f3501e6abf949258954ddeded5b3c2daab6259983659e11211a3a"
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 323 (2019) — Establishing revenue fund and source to support Department of Agriculture's improvement to facilities

## 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=SB323%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=323)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB323%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=323)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB323%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=323)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Baldwin — primary (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-16** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-01-30** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 97) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 97)
- **2019-02-08** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** Reference dispensed
- **2019-02-11** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 133) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Effective from passage (Roll No. 134)
- **2019-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-14** House Message received
- **2019-02-19** To Governor 2/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-19** To Governor 2/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-20** To Governor 2/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-26** Approved by Governor 2/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 4, 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/a82512dd-ca49-4dac-b8fc-bf16c1ab8a80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).