republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-397.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	Creating crime of impersonating blind or disabled person	Creating crime of impersonating blind or disabled person	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 397	West Virginia SB 397 (2018)	bill	Courts Human Services	enacted	Sypolt	4	34	2	2018-01-26	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d0ab096d-0aa8-48c7-b338-d91b8121f562	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=397&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	a2153e3d802a122fbd39edbcd7bee0df607c3760891e811df003b757862c235f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 397 (2018) — Creating crime of impersonating blind or disabled person

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Sypolt — primary (person)
• Cline — cosponsor (person)
• Facemire — cosponsor (person)
• Romano — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-26 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 Committee substitute reported
• 2018-02-12 On 1st reading
• 2018-02-12 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-13 On 2nd reading
• 2018-02-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-13 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-14 On 3rd reading
• 2018-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-14 Passed Senate (Roll No. 113) passage
• 2018-02-14 Ordered to House
• 2018-02-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-15 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-15 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Do pass
• 2018-03-02 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-03 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 319) passage
• 2018-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-06 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
• 2018-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 58, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0ab096d-0aa8-48c7-b338-d91b8121f562. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).