---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing correctional institutions and juvenile facilities video and audio records be confidential"
description: "Providing correctional institutions and juvenile facilities video and audio records be confidential"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 495"
citation: "West Virginia SB 495 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-27"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a54a3218-15ee-4926-8b52-da2e762c2311"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=495&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "526a079785ca8bc46f3764ea0a91aab6b963ca89fa6c33d05978ddbe9dcb3fba"
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 495 (2023) — Providing correctional institutions and juvenile facilities video and audio records be confidential

## 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=sb495%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=495)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb495%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=495)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb495%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=495)
4. **sb495 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb495 h jud am _1 adopted.htm)
5. **sb495 hfat capito 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb495 hfat capito 3-8 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 156) `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 156)
- **2023-02-09** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 666) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 667)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 609)
- **2023-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 609)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 78, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a54a3218-15ee-4926-8b52-da2e762c2311`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).