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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to coal mining"
description: "Relating generally to coal mining"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 626"
citation: "West Virginia SB 626 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-19"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62509fd7-0cde-4de5-b7ff-6fb4198a8e73"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=626&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d6acf28fd98025cbde54a49570c40cb44fba285fb70a60e0d35c82bdc47c765d"
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 626 (2018) — Relating generally to coal mining
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB626%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=626)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB626%20ORG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=626)
## Votes
- Passage — **340** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **934** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-19** Originating in Senate Energy, Industry and Mining
- **2018-02-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 173) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-23** To Energy then Judiciary
- **2018-02-23** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** 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)
- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 389) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-08** House Message received
- **2018-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 398)
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-20** To Governor 3/20/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/20/18 - 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 152, 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/62509fd7-0cde-4de5-b7ff-6fb4198a8e73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).