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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allow child witness testify remotely in situations deemed traumatic by judge"
+description: "Allow child witness testify remotely in situations deemed traumatic by judge"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3338"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3338 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Courts", "Juveniles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Green"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-13"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57ebb3a7-03a1-4e68-adca-37230c6d26e3"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3338&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "75694de2e94935060173116ec495d75396e40a4fc5a1ed6d47f18db05a40f811"
+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 3338 (2025) — Allow child witness testify remotely in situations deemed traumatic by judge
+
+## 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=hb3338%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3338)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3338%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3338)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3338%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3338)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3338%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3338)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Green — primary (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Browning — cosponsor (person)
+- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-19** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 176) `passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 497) `passage`
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 52, 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/57ebb3a7-03a1-4e68-adca-37230c6d26e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+