republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/sb-237.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	Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons	Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	SB 237	West Virginia SB 237 (2019)	bill	Public Safety	enacted	Jeffries	3	34	2	2019-01-10	2019-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/231da7a8-d1fa-4e1f-9b8d-fe76738a4b71	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=237&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	7ad0673565ca8e7c8a1d164103717ebc0ff46bdbb65a0ce94e5d47c4dd92cfa9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 237 (2019) — Improving ability of law enforcement to locate and return missing persons

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 — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 30–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeffries — primary (person)
• Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
• Cline — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-02-05 Committee substitute reported
• 2019-02-06 On 1st reading
• 2019-02-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-02-07 On 2nd reading
• 2019-02-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-02-08 On 3rd reading
• 2019-02-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-02-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 95) passage
• 2019-02-08 Ordered to House
• 2019-02-11 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-02-11 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 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
• 2019-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 452) passage
• 2019-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-06 House Message received
• 2019-03-19 To Governor 3/19/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
• 2019-03-25 Approved by Governor 3/25/19 executive-signature
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-04-16 Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/231da7a8-d1fa-4e1f-9b8d-fe76738a4b71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).