---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission"
description: "Relating to Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 481"
citation: "West Virginia SB 481 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 56
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/831e9f04-bc28-4d68-adda-9f96aa05dba5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=481&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fb26aa3c4768beb9a0d89e7d45be4967d98c2f3b66565a21bbeb6405b1adde37"
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 481 (2019) — Relating to Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission

## 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=SB481%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=481)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB481%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=481)
3. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 748)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00748.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB481%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=481)
5. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 548)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/03-09-0548.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-30** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 133) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** 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** 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. 459) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **2019-03-06** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** House appointed conferees: Kump, Steele, Brown, N.
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Weld, Rucker, Romano
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** To conference
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - House
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2019-03-09** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 548)
- **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. 748)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** 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`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 118, 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/831e9f04-bc28-4d68-adda-9f96aa05dba5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).