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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls"
+description: "Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 487"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 487 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1d0d01-3f21-4a5f-8d7a-0feffd8dd2aa"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=487&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "0e41d58c78e1247a1a3628544c3a4c4c12b88b7605306593c9f8f2da5268e21b"
+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 487 (2025) — Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls
+
+## 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=sb487%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb487%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb487%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **84–9** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woodrum — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-03** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 62) `passage`
+- **2025-03-05** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-12** Do pass
+- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 94) `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-17** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-03-18** House Message received
+- **2025-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/19/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 105, 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/ae1d0d01-3f21-4a5f-8d7a-0feffd8dd2aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+