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type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child"
description: "Requiring Defense Department advocacy groups be notified in abuse or neglect of military person's child"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "West Virginia SB 47 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations", "Juveniles", "Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romano"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a08b342d-fa66-48e7-945e-45542e734b02"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=47&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "80310bd0090371f0aa1b842306d4c480fd00aca2c1d3bc0e72f58bebcfd552db"
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 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](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB47%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=47)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB47%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=47)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB47%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=47)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **340** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a08b342d-fa66-48e7-945e-45542e734b02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).