---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority"
description: "Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 317"
citation: "West Virginia SB 317 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 60
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d3baf2e-f3ee-4d91-b823-1e89b537513f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=317&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d2c7e13ac49e7830988f32f0dfadaef25583241cf426ff834f83f48e5c8ec16c"
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 317 (2019) — Authorizing three or more adjacent counties form multicounty trail network authority

## 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=SB317%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=317)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB317%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=317)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB317%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=317)
4. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 747)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00747.pdf)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB317%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=317)
6. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 547)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/03-09-0547.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-16** To Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 105) `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-12** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Do pass
- **2019-03-01** 2nd reference to the committee on Judiciary dispensed, new 2nd reference, to Government Organization
- **2019-03-01** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 518) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** House appointed conferees: Howell, Hott, Hansen
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Maynard, Smith, Beach
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** To conference
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - House
- **2019-03-09** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 547)
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** Conference report received-House
- **2019-03-09** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 747)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 176, 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/5d3baf2e-f3ee-4d91-b823-1e89b537513f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).