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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property"
+description: "Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 257"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 257 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Real and Personal Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Grady"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=257&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ec78a3fa610a91dbfc3fe3ca18a5d5d0c2ab7356e18396265af80ce183da414c"
+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 SB 257 (2025) — Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb257%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=257)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb257%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=257)
+3. **sb257 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb257%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Grady — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-07** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 90) `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-04-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 415) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-09** House Message received
+- **2025-04-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 417)
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 45, 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/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+