---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony"
description: "Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2509"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2509 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e49a317-1c55-4752-bf4b-537825240ff4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2509&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8da17228bf86473434a520fc031e84940fd8d0c1fcfcd4b0334d9a1a5d62def9"
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 HB 2509 (2019) — Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony

## 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=hb2509%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2509)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2509%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2509)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **67–27** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **57–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pack — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Do pass
- **2019-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-25** Passed House (Roll No. 26) `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-28** House Message received
- **2019-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 351) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-06** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 501) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 54, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e49a317-1c55-4752-bf4b-537825240ff4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).