republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/sb-72.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	Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights	Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	SB 72	West Virginia SB 72 (2019)	bill	Crime	enacted	Woelfel	3	39	2	2019-01-09	2019-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/e28efbf4-7328-4dfc-87e8-43caecb648d9	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=72&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e800574fa0b4c3a40b444d7c9c07907fecd3ff803e61adc6ac067f126f3040e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 72 (2019) — Creating Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights

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 — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Woelfel — primary (person)
• Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
• Stollings — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-01-09 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-09 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-01-09 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-25 Committee substitute reported
• 2019-01-28 On 1st reading
• 2019-01-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-01-29 On 2nd reading
• 2019-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-01-30 On 3rd reading
• 2019-01-30 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-01-30 Passed Senate (Roll No. 36) passage
• 2019-01-30 Ordered to House
• 2019-01-31 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-01-31 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 To House Judiciary 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 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2019-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-04 Passed House (Roll No. 424) passage
• 2019-03-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-03-05 House Message received
• 2019-03-05 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 339)
• 2019-03-05 Communicated to House
• 2019-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2019-03-11 To Governor 3/11/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/11/19 - 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 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e28efbf4-7328-4dfc-87e8-43caecb648d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).