---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing criminal penalties and fines for assault on certain public service workers, law-enforcement officers, and police animals"
description: "Increasing criminal penalties and fines for assault on certain public service workers, law-enforcement officers, and police animals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 200"
citation: "West Virginia SB 200 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52137474-f0b2-45ec-bb47-79d15af6d5b8"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=200&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8a3c4fc2313a8a600867c10fd75f2e2b181f4eed7e56ac422ddf19553b67b3e4"
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 (2026) — Increasing criminal penalties and fines for assault on certain public service workers, law-enforcement officers, and police animals

## 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=2026&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=2026&sesstype=RS&i=200)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=200)
4. **sb200 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/sb200%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Committee substitute reported
- **2026-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2026-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2026-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2026-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 179) `passage`
- **2026-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2026-02-23** House received Senate message
- **2026-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-09** Markup Discussion
- **2026-03-10** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-03-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 417) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-13** House Message received
- **2026-03-13** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 596)
- **2026-03-13** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-13** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-25** Chapter 100, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52137474-f0b2-45ec-bb47-79d15af6d5b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).