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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to coal mining activities"
description: "Relating generally to coal mining activities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 635"
citation: "West Virginia SB 635 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 49
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fecdacfe-1d5f-47ff-9fe2-94558bc08b40"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=635&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ed4250095f59162b991df4c38f8d2bb3f7d9140765a7646345a23030f88f7d72"
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 635 (2019) — Relating generally to coal mining activities
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB635%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=635)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB635%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=635)
3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB635%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=635)
4. **SB635 SFA _2 SMITH, 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB635 SFA _2 SMITH, 3-8 adopted.htm)
5. **SB635 SFAT _1 SMITH 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB635 SFAT _1 SMITH 3-8 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **980** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **990** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **321** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-15** Originating in Senate Energy, Industry and Mining
- **2019-02-15** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-19** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/19/19
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2019-02-21** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 188)
- **2019-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** To Energy
- **2019-02-21** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 428) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 429)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 428)
- **2019-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 428)
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 696)
- **2019-03-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 697)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 544)
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 544)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 170, 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/fecdacfe-1d5f-47ff-9fe2-94558bc08b40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).