republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/sb-241.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form"
description: "Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 241"
citation: "West Virginia SB 241 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Records and Papers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 56
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a74f913-0df3-4bd1-8ddc-533def21c0fc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=241&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4a5c512340324b990d84f7c1f00e7d7c8c875147f2998b65f23096bd5ffaed5f"
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 241 (2019) — Permitting county court clerks scan certain documents in electronic form

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB241%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=241)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB241%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=241)
3. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 746)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00746.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB241%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=241)
5. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/senate/03-09-0546.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-24** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 31) `passage`
- **2019-01-28** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-29** To Political Subdivisions then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 517) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House refused to recede and requested conference(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** House appointed conferees: Martin, C., Worrell, Hicks
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate agreed to conference and appoints conferees: Sypolt, Swope, Facemire
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** To conference
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2019-03-09** Conference report filed - House
- **2019-03-09** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** Conference report received-House
- **2019-03-09** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 746)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** 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`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 233, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a74f913-0df3-4bd1-8ddc-533def21c0fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).