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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating generally to magistrate courts"
+description: "Relating generally to magistrate courts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2761"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2761 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Magistrates"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Akers"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-07-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88b43c15-d05f-492f-89cf-c60c83a2406e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2761&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "465892b7b5594a02fbf8f76eb73e082e8b72268a787402fcf1d0dc2884249a69"
+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 2761 (2025) — Relating generally to magistrate courts
+
+## 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=hb2761%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2761)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2761%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2761)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2761%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2761)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2761%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2761)
+5. **hb2761 hfat akers 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2761%20hfat%20akers%203-11%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **79–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Akers — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Cannon, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-04** To House Courts `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-07** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-11** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 69) `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 366) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-08** 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`
+- **2025-07-22** Chapter 71, 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/88b43c15-d05f-492f-89cf-c60c83a2406e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+