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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Removing outdated provisions governing political committees"
+description: "Removing outdated provisions governing political committees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 492"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 492 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34d317ab-5d47-46ff-bba2-cc555d3d9b83"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=492&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "9b39d106972121b2602dee061bdd6100c57f2d3fdcc0ed3e22bb941bb49eac72"
+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+# West Virginia SB 492 (2025) — Removing outdated provisions governing political committees
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb492%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=492)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb492%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=492)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## 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 Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **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. 85) `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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-19** Do pass
+- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 163) `passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-24** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-03-25** House Message received
+- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 107, 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/34d317ab-5d47-46ff-bba2-cc555d3d9b83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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