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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025"
+description: "Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 458"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 458 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+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/648e64b6-4c0d-4fa2-93f0-6d5fc50a3c18"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=458&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "88868a7b0ad4bbd1f3bb3f1704b0e746ec3906ca08725aa9ce47b2664f254032"
+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 458 (2025) — Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025
+
+## 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=sb458%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb458%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb458%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
+4. **sb458 h go am _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb458%20h%20go%20am%20_1%203-26%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 83) `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-26** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 256) `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-02** House Message received
+- **2025-04-02** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 275)
+- **2025-04-02** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-02** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-03** To Governor 4/3/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-03** To Governor 4/3/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-07** Approved by Governor 4/7/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/7/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 194, 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/648e64b6-4c0d-4fa2-93f0-6d5fc50a3c18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+