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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases"
description: "Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 554"
citation: "West Virginia SB 554 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57e2d3af-fde1-4ba7-8340-d8c9599638ab"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=554&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fdc1e560ad36340d9742e6b103a54c1b138ad05bf27b5123816e3df39764369a"
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 554 (2020) — Relating to termination, expiration, or cancellation of oil or natural gas leases
## 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=SB554%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=554)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB554%20SUB2.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=554)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB554%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=554)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB554%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=554)
5. **SB554 H ENG AM _1 2-20 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB554 H ENG AM _1 2-20 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **310** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **858** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Smith — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Pitsenbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-21** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary
- **2020-01-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-21** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2020-01-31** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-01-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-12** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-14** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** Passed Senate (Roll No. 144) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-17** To Energy then Judiciary
- **2020-02-17** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-27** From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2020-02-29** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-29** Passed House (Roll No. 424) `passage`
- **2020-02-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-02** House Message received
- **2020-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 368)
- **2020-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - 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 140, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57e2d3af-fde1-4ba7-8340-d8c9599638ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).