republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/sb-163.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	Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules	Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	SB 163	West Virginia SB 163 (2019)	bill	Legislature--Rule Making	enacted	Maynard	3	41	4	2019-01-10	2019-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=163&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	ea50fc91d081062cb2038760c2e5c6ddc85c65d3ffbc2828c3cfa8b6fb8c1ada	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 163 (2019) — Authorizing DEP promulgate legislative rules

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 — 20–12 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 78–22 (pass) · lower
• HFA HANSEN ET AL 3-4 — 34–64 (fail) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 90–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maynard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-01-10 To Energy, Industry and Mining then Judiciary
• 2019-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-01-10 To Energy, Industry and Mining
• 2019-01-16 Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2019-01-16 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute reported
• 2019-02-05 On 1st reading
• 2019-02-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-02-06 On 2nd reading
• 2019-02-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-02-07 On 3rd reading
• 2019-02-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-02-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 89) passage
• 2019-02-07 Effective from passage (Roll No. 90)
• 2019-02-07 Ordered to House
• 2019-02-08 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-02-08 To Energy then Judiciary
• 2019-02-08 To House Energy referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2019-02-20 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-03-01 Do pass
• 2019-03-02 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-03-04 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-03-04 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 433) amendment-failure
• 2019-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 444) passage
• 2019-03-05 Effective from passage (Roll No. 445)
• 2019-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-06 House Message received
• 2019-03-20 To Governor 3/20/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 executive-signature
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
• 2019-04-16 Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/43b2d98a-6e5f-4632-946f-92c4576f0a81. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).