republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-51.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	Relating to domestic relations	Relating to domestic relations	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 51	West Virginia SB 51 (2018)	bill	Domestic Relations	enacted	Gaunch	3	56	3	2018-01-10	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/16fe316f-1e71-4a05-989d-a804de4b53f7	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=51&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	86b1aa4925885fd23bc4c02aaa772dff672869131653fc77d79f241eb624a0de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 51 (2018) — Relating to domestic relations

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 — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 84–13 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 81–16 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gaunch — primary (person)
• Cline — 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
• 2018-01-24 Committee substitute reported
• 2018-01-25 On 1st reading
• 2018-01-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-26 On 2nd reading
• 2018-01-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-29 On 3rd reading
• 2018-01-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-29 Passed Senate (Roll No. 27) passage
• 2018-01-29 Ordered to House
• 2018-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-30 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-30 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-03 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2018-03-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-06 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-06 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2018-03-07 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-07 Passed House (Roll No. 364) passage
• 2018-03-07 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-08 House Message received
• 2018-03-08 Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-09 House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 House appointed conferees: Foster, Harshbarger, Isner
• 2018-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-09 House Message received
• 2018-03-09 Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Trump, Smith, Woelfel
• 2018-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-09 To conference
• 2018-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-09 Conference report filed - House
• 2018-03-09 Conference report filed - Senate
• 2018-03-10 Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 488)
• 2018-03-10 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 Conference report received-House
• 2018-03-10 House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 533)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-21 To Governor 3/21/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 65, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16fe316f-1e71-4a05-989d-a804de4b53f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).