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Bill Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices us/states/wv West Virginia Legislature 2020 SB 136 West Virginia SB 136 (2020)
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West Virginia SB 136 (2020) — Prohibiting certain misleading lawsuit advertising practices

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
  4. SB136 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB136 H JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
  5. SB136 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB136 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm)
  6. SB136 SFA _1 TRUMP 3-6 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB136 SFA _1 TRUMP 3-6 adopted.htm)
  7. SB136 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB136 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm)

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 5741 (pass) · lower
  • PASSAGE — 5742 (pass) · lower
  • HFA BYRD & FLUHARTY 3-3 — 4851 (fail) · lower
  • Passage — 331 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Swope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-08 Filed for introduction filing
  • 2020-01-08 To Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-01-08 Introduced in Senate introduction
  • 2020-01-08 To Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-02-04 Committee substitute reported
  • 2020-02-05 On 1st reading
  • 2020-02-05 Read 1st time reading-1
  • 2020-02-06 On 2nd reading
  • 2020-02-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2020-02-07 On 3rd reading
  • 2020-02-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2020-02-07 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 81) passage
  • 2020-02-07 Ordered to House
  • 2020-02-10 Introduced in House introduction
  • 2020-02-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-02-10 To House Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2020-02-29 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
  • 2020-03-02 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
  • 2020-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
  • 2020-03-03 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
  • 2020-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2020-03-03 Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 469)
  • 2020-03-03 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
  • 2020-03-04 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
  • 2020-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2020-03-04 Passed House (Roll No. 492) passage
  • 2020-03-04 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
  • 2020-03-04 Communicated to Senate
  • 2020-03-06 House Message received
  • 2020-03-06 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 474)
  • 2020-03-06 Communicated to House
  • 2020-03-06 Senate reconsidered action (voice vote)
  • 2020-03-06 Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 533)
  • 2020-03-06 Senate requests House to concur
  • 2020-03-07 House received Senate message
  • 2020-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 708)
  • 2020-03-07 Communicated to Senate
  • 2020-03-07 Completed legislative action
  • 2020-03-07 House Message received
  • 2020-03-18 To Governor 3/18/20 executive-receipt
  • 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
  • 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal executive-receipt
  • 2020-03-25 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 executive-signature
  • 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
  • 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
  • 2020-04-14 Chapter 311, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5ba2e44-4c7f-48e0-9118-4897e9e9496d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).