republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/sb-298.md

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Bill	Relating to non-federally declared emergencies and non-states of emergency	Relating to non-federally declared emergencies and non-states of emergency	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	SB 298	West Virginia SB 298 (2023)	bill	Public Safety	enacted	Trump	3	38	1	2023-01-19	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/28a33d82-6250-45cd-82fc-912c1a55c064	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=298&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	20c25387e331465b29958e55bc12ea0f9f698ae46991383a6ef24d2b7273d77e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 298 (2023) — Relating to non-federally declared emergencies and non-states of emergency

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 — 28–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Trump — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Plymale — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-01-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-01-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-01-24 Committee substitute reported
• 2023-01-25 On 1st reading
• 2023-01-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-01-26 On 2nd reading
• 2023-01-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-01-27 On 3rd reading
• 2023-01-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-01-27 Passed Senate (Roll No. 83) passage
• 2023-01-27 Effective from passage (Roll No. 83)
• 2023-01-27 Ordered to House
• 2023-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-30 To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-01-30 To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security referral-committee
• 2023-02-09 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2023-02-09 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Do pass
• 2023-03-08 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-03-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-03-09 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-03-10 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-03-10 Passed House (Roll No. 648) passage
• 2023-03-10 Effective from passage (Roll No. 649)
• 2023-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-11 House Message received
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-16 To Governor 3/16/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-23 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 279, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28a33d82-6250-45cd-82fc-912c1a55c064. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).