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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot"
+description: "Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2709"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2709 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Akers"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-20"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb2f05bf-9220-4486-ac93-17482bfe52b9"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2709&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "70016c57b7ebb5777514d846d27a742c97e724536dda139f6eb9989a9ecbdced"
+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 2709 (2025) — Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot
+
+## 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=hb2709%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2709)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2709%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2709)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2709%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2709)
+4. **hb2709 s gov am _1 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2709%20s%20gov%20am%20_1%204-1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **hb2709 s gov amt _1 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2709%20s%20gov%20amt%20_1%204-1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Akers — primary (person)
+- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Petitto — cosponsor (person)
+- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-20** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-24** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-24** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-02-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** 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. 36) `passage`
+- **2025-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 314) `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 398)
+- **2025-04-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-08** House Message received
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House 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 109, 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/bb2f05bf-9220-4486-ac93-17482bfe52b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+