republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-47.md

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Bill	Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child	Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 47	West Virginia SB 47 (2018)	bill	Domestic Relations Juveniles Military and Veterans	enacted	Romano	3	39	2	2018-01-10	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/a08b342d-fa66-48e7-945e-45542e734b02	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=47&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	80310bd0090371f0aa1b842306d4c480fd00aca2c1d3bc0e72f58bebcfd552db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 47 (2018) — Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child

Version chain

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

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

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Romano — primary (person)
• Ojeda — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-10 To Military then Health and Human Resources
• 2018-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-10 To Military
• 2018-01-24 Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Health and Human Resources committee-passage
• 2018-01-24 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-14 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2018-02-15 On 1st reading
• 2018-02-15 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-16 On 2nd reading
• 2018-02-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-16 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-19 On 3rd reading
• 2018-02-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-19 Passed Senate (Roll No. 145) passage
• 2018-02-19 Ordered to House
• 2018-02-20 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-20 To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2018-03-01 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Do pass
• 2018-03-03 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-05 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-06 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-06 Passed House (Roll No. 336) passage
• 2018-03-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-07 House Message received
• 2018-03-14 To Governor 3/14/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/14/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/14/18 - 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 33, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a08b342d-fa66-48e7-945e-45542e734b02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).