---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to third-party litigation financing"
description: "Relating to third-party litigation financing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 360"
citation: "West Virginia SB 360 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Protection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3971c69-cb06-4b8f-9714-090b23686de6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=360&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "98008aa1ac5be3e823723a245e4b1f56d153111b96209d31fc392689dbd80847"
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 360 (2019) — Relating to third-party litigation financing

## 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=SB360%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=360)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB360%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=360)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB360%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=360)
4. **SB360 SFAT TRUMP 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB360 SFAT TRUMP 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- HFA MALCOLM 3-4 #1 — **11–87** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 173) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **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 to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 434)
- **2019-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 457) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **2019-03-06** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 370)
- **2019-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 560)
- **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 49, 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/a3971c69-cb06-4b8f-9714-090b23686de6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).