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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public"
+description: "Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 244"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 244 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Professions and Occupations", "Records and Papers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-16"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c87fd835-3f9c-442c-8dc3-3318345b8b8a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=244&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "8752bb06892acdc58a8a151c3c3b1762caf76c15f229ffeef2281545ab1e4d5f"
+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 244 (2023) — Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb244%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=244)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb244%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=244)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woodrum — primary (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-23** On 1st reading
+- **2023-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-24** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-25** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 70) `passage`
+- **2023-01-25** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-06** Do pass
+- **2023-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 593) `passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-10** House Message received
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House 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 229, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c87fd835-3f9c-442c-8dc3-3318345b8b8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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