---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state"
description: "Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 529"
citation: "West Virginia SB 529 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Claims"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 61
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e36b93fb-3867-4341-bd30-d571c56c76ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=529&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ee9c68056b4955403270df051ff12b260430f5e6d68d585324355cc6c2e462fc"
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 529 (2020) — Establishing limitations on claims and benefits against state

## 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=SB529%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=529)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB529%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=529)
3. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 784)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/house/00784.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB529%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=529)
5. **SB529 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB529 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
6. **SB529 H JUD AMT REVISED adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB529 H JUD AMT REVISED adopted.htm)
7. **SB529 H JUD AMT adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB529 H JUD AMT adopted.htm)
8. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 637)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0637.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-01-24** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 40) `passage`
- **2020-01-28** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 40)
- **2020-01-28** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-02-29** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-29** Passed House (Roll No. 422) `passage`
- **2020-02-29** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-29** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 423)
- **2020-02-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-02** House Message received
- **2020-03-02** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2020-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2020-03-07** House appointed conferees: Capito, Steele, Robinson
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Weld, Clements, Woelfel
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** To conference
- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - House
- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2020-03-07** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 637)
- **2020-03-07** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 637)
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** Conference report received-House
- **2020-03-07** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 784)
- **2020-03-07** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 785)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - 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 47, 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/e36b93fb-3867-4341-bd30-d571c56c76ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).