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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the crime of negligent homicide"
+description: "Relating to the crime of negligent homicide"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2871"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2871 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Funkhouser"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-24"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14967ae7-51d9-4874-b3f8-4a46bf9195e1"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2871&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "3864fc3524af6b4dff45efce5e0b9ac545e41faeef9236db8f539c35792517bb"
+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 2871 (2025) — Relating to the crime of negligent homicide
+
+## 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=hb2871%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2871)
+2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2871%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2871)
+3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2871%20sub2%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2871)
+4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2871%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2871)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2871%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2871)
+6. **hb2871 hfat mcgeehan 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2871%20hfat%20mcgeehan%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb2871 s jud am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2871%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
+8. **hb2871 sfat stuart _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2871%20sfat%20stuart%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Funkhouser — primary (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Horst — cosponsor (person)
+- Kump — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Masters — cosponsor (person)
+- Roop — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26** To House Courts `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-02-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-05** By substitute for substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 48) `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `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`
+- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 370) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted
+- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 454)
+- **2025-04-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-11** House Message received
+- **2025-04-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 530)
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-25** 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 79, 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/14967ae7-51d9-4874-b3f8-4a46bf9195e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+