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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating generally to fiscal emergencies of local governments"
+description: "Relating generally to fiscal emergencies of local governments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3517"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3517 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Akers"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-31"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/808902d6-6e4e-42d2-9da8-378b61bb420a"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3517&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "cfe644e513c2e99d9d50e5225fb7b583025808de25eca3939f7d9efbcc4a3f2c"
+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 3517 (2025) — Relating generally to fiscal emergencies of local governments
+
+## 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=hb3517%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3517)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3517%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3517)
+3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3517%20org.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3517)
+4. **hb3517 s fin am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3517%20s%20fin%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+5. **hb3517 s fin amt _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3517%20s%20fin%20amt%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Akers — primary (person)
+- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-31** Originating in House Judiciary
+- **2025-03-31** Do pass
+- **2025-04-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Passed House (Roll No. 365) `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 513) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 613)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 593)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-12** 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`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 189, 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/808902d6-6e4e-42d2-9da8-378b61bb420a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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