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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit"
+description: "Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 427"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 427 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Labor"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Phillips"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c1be41b-3ad1-4cd0-80a9-26517ab3701d"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=427&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1abb38205709c901f83e38d008881ae6ce47f8526586683596b627afbd13301f"
+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 427 (2025) — Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit
+
+## 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=sb427%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=427)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb427%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=427)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb427%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=427)
+4. **sb427 sub h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb427%20sub%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **91–9** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-13** To Workforce
+- **2025-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-13** To Workforce
+- **2025-02-25** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-02-26** On 1st reading
+- **2025-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-27** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-28** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 46) `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-03** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 504) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 575)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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 193, 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/0c1be41b-3ad1-4cd0-80a9-26517ab3701d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+