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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment."
+description: "Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2066"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2066 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime", "Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Akers"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2066&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "18b4770a22d34b6bd10d37cd6673e4ab77964369e723a9d3bf7529fe484e7dd4"
+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 HB 2066 (2025) — Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
+5. **hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2066%20hfa%20drennan%20and%20akers%202-23%20_1%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2066%20hfa%20drennan%20and%20akers%202-23%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb2066 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2066%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Akers — primary (person)
+- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell, T. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-13** To House Courts `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-19** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-02-20** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-02-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 10) `passage`
+- **2025-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 572)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-30** Chapter 76, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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