---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to persons eighteen years of age and older in the custody of the Bureau of Juvenile Services"
description: "Relating generally to persons eighteen years of age and older in the custody of the Bureau of Juvenile Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20191S"
identifier: "HB 116"
citation: "West Virginia HB 116 (20191S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-05-20"
last_action: "2019-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20953e49-b0cf-40e0-8c20-f76e0834a3d1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=116&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "362ff79c1dcb3f6440417b29a6f9e724321b398fa197e269bf422be31f52af3a"
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 HB 116 (20191S) — Relating generally to persons eighteen years of age and older in the custody of the Bureau of Juvenile Services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb116%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=116)
2. **HB116 SFA _1 TRUMP 5-20 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/1X/floor_amends/HB116 SFA _1 TRUMP 5-20 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb116%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=116)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 771)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed House (Roll No. 772) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 773)
- **2019-05-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-05-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 47)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 48) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 48)
- **2019-05-20** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-05-20** House received Senate message
- **2019-05-20** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 815)
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 816)
- **2019-05-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-05-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-05-20** House Message received
- **2019-05-24** To Governor 5/24/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-01** To Governor 5/24/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Approved by Governor 5/29/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-01** Approved by Governor 5/29/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-06-17** Approved by Governor 5/29/19 - House Journal
- **2019-10-01** Chapter 29, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20953e49-b0cf-40e0-8c20-f76e0834a3d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).