republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/hb-2509.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	Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony	Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	HB 2509	West Virginia HB 2509 (2019)	bill	Crime	enacted	Pack	2	39	3	2019-01-17	2019-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/3e49a317-1c55-4752-bf4b-537825240ff4	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2509&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8da17228bf86473434a520fc031e84940fd8d0c1fcfcd4b0334d9a1a5d62def9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2509 (2019) — Clarifying that theft of a controlled substance is a felony

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 67–27 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 57–38 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pack — primary (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Wilson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-01-17 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-01-17 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-22 Do pass
• 2019-01-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-01-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-01-24 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-01-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-01-25 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-01-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-01-25 Passed House (Roll No. 26) passage
• 2019-01-25 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-01-28 House Message received
• 2019-01-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-01-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-03-01 Reported do pass, with title amendment committee-passage
• 2019-03-02 On 1st reading
• 2019-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2019-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-03-05 On 3rd reading
• 2019-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-05 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 351) passage
• 2019-03-05 Senate requests House to concur
• 2019-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2019-03-06 House concurred in Senate title amendment
• 2019-03-06 Passed House (Roll No. 501) passage
• 2019-03-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-07 House Message received
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-19 To Governor 3/19/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
• 2019-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 executive-signature
• 2019-04-11 Chapter 54, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e49a317-1c55-4752-bf4b-537825240ff4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).