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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Declaring sale and manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency"
+description: "Declaring sale and manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 270"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 270 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8fc6bbe-5b35-41cb-b110-4cfd710e94f3"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=270&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "4d82fd36065a69ad7e187110f9e3ddb4820356a7eb3a9d08ab79d6864cdce84b"
+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 270 (2025) — Declaring sale and manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency
+
+## 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=sb270%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=270)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb270%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=270)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb270%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=270)
+4. **sb270 hfa masters and butler 4-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb270%20hfa%20masters%20and%20butler%204-4%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **sb270 hfat akers 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb270%20hfat%20akers%204-8%20adopted.htm)
+6. **sb270 hjud am. _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb270%20hjud%20am.%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Martin — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Hart — cosponsor (person)
+- Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Thorne — cosponsor (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`
+- **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading
+- **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-02-24** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/24/2025
+- **2025-02-25** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/25/2025
+- **2025-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 33) `passage`
+- **2025-02-26** Ordered to House
+- **2025-02-27** House received Senate message
+- **2025-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** 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** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **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. 416) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **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. 418)
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 241, 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/b8fc6bbe-5b35-41cb-b110-4cfd710e94f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+