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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections"
+description: "Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 486"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 486 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83a0c13f-7fd1-470e-932c-27ec22f817b9"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=486&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b513eb4b3416ceb68a9392562f21fb636fce62d524e668ca3efe216b6e20eb84"
+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 486 (2025) — Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections
+
+## 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=sb486%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=486)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb486%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=486)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb486%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=486)
+4. **sb486 hfat akers 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb486%20hfat%20akers%203-12%20adopted.htm)
+5. **sb486 hjud am. _1 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb486%20hjud%20am.%20_1%203-12%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woodrum — primary (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-02-28** On 1st reading
+- **2025-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 57) `passage`
+- **2025-03-04** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-13** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-17** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-17** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-03-17** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-18** Passed House (Roll No. 106) `passage`
+- **2025-03-18** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-18** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-19** House Message received
+- **2025-03-19** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 129)
+- **2025-03-19** Communicated to House
+- **2025-03-19** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-20** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-21** To Governor 3/20/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 104, 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/83a0c13f-7fd1-470e-932c-27ec22f817b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+