---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Green Alert Plan"
description: "Creating Green Alert Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "West Virginia SB 289 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acfe1f06-0354-4f95-8b31-58864d62878f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=289&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6e23942fff2c6ae9eed0d0f0b72fb8d2341e53130e1fb7cb076284c8f907a98b"
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 289 (2020) — Creating Green Alert Plan

## 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=SB289%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=289)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB289%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=289)
3. **SB289 HFIN AM 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB289 HFIN AM 2-28 adopted.htm)
4. **SB289 HFIN AMT 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB289 HFIN AMT 2-28 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Military then Finance
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To Military
- **2020-01-22** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-22** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 26) `passage`
- **2020-01-27** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-28** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2020-02-27** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 522)
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 523) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 476)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 348, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acfe1f06-0354-4f95-8b31-58864d62878f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).