republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-37.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day	Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 37	West Virginia SB 37 (2018)	bill	Crime	enacted	Woelfel	3	33	2	2018-01-10	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/424c5101-165c-4c71-b6f2-ae4c238c8016	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=37&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	5d5e953449144b637a5891eb7ceb1f7c9e5d8f418d783e4f71963ec2be4afc9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 37 (2018) — Equalizing penalty for entering without breaking regardless of time of day

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 94–4 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Woelfel — primary (person)
• Ojeda — cosponsor (person)
• Trump — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-19 Committee substitute reported
• 2018-01-22 On 1st reading
• 2018-01-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-23 On 2nd reading
• 2018-01-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-24 On 3rd reading
• 2018-01-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 16) passage
• 2018-01-24 Ordered to House
• 2018-01-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-25 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-27 Do pass
• 2018-02-28 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-01 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-02 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-02 Passed House (Roll No. 276) passage
• 2018-03-02 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-02 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-03 House Message received
• 2018-03-09 To Governor 3/9/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-20 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 56, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/424c5101-165c-4c71-b6f2-ae4c238c8016. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).