---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to financial responsibility of inmates"
description: "Relating to financial responsibility of inmates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 373"
citation: "West Virginia SB 373 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections", "Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16502dc3-3d6d-4185-965c-7e74837c7d91"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=373&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "017d8eb07c8f815223a2987f140fa8599a785853fbdaddae4147c958f0d5c9a6"
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 373 (2019) — Relating to financial responsibility of inmates

## 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=SB373%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=373)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB373%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=373)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB373%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=373)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB373%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=373)
5. **SB373 SFA _1 WOELFEL 2-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB373 SFA _1 WOELFEL 2-1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (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`
- **2019-01-30** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-31** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-04** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-05** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-18** To House Finance `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`
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 458) `passage`
- **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`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 56, 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/16502dc3-3d6d-4185-965c-7e74837c7d91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).