---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Bill"
description: "Budget Bill"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 200"
citation: "West Virginia SB 200 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 46
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/805da7c3-27e8-4552-8872-010b2b895ce4"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=200&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8096faaa537ddd8dfd82a247c924edae65f36a0e6561116aed69f94b6a24080e"
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 200 (2024) — Budget Bill

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=200)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=200)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=200)
4. **Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 763)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2024/RS/votes/house/00763.pdf)
5. **sb200 hfa criss _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb200%20hfa%20criss%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb200 sfa tarr _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb200%20sfa%20tarr%20_1%203-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **57–38** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **88–11** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT — **83–13** (pass) · lower
- BUDGET BILL — **74–16** (pass) · lower
- BUDGET BILL — **73–25** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **84–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-28** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 312)
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 313) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 313)
- **2024-02-28** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-29** Reference dispensed
- **2024-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/4/2024
- **2024-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-05** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 483) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 484)
- **2024-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 519)
- **2024-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 519)
- **2024-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-09** Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 763)
- **2024-03-09** Motion to concur in Senate amendment (Roll No. 764)
- **2024-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 765)
- **2024-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 766)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-12** To Governor 3/12/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** Approved by Governor with deletions 3/14/2024
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor with deletions 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor with deletions 3/14/2024- House Journal
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 11, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/805da7c3-27e8-4552-8872-010b2b895ce4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).