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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission"
+description: "Relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2444"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2444 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-17"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/845bef4d-0b56-429d-b199-7d29f13d906b"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2444&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "e65abd14cecc604793f6c12b69ad1fcedeff65b711b9b77575c2cc47630638e7"
+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 2444 (2025) — Relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2444%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2444)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2444%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2444)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2444%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2444)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **24–10** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **80–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Criss — primary (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-03** Do pass
+- **2025-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 34) `passage`
+- **2025-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 393) `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-30** Chapter 124, 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/845bef4d-0b56-429d-b199-7d29f13d906b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+