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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Eliminating accelerated tax payment requirements"
+description: "Eliminating accelerated tax payment requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 615"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 615 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-27"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07495b0f-0ceb-40ae-8c3f-1d2ba59fe922"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=615&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "bc4d7da9bea97a2221b677b8e1797b70ff5d2a1fe31693896196f567aa1fad97"
+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 615 (2025) — Eliminating accelerated tax payment requirements
+
+## 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=sb615%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=615)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb615%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=615)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-19** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-21** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 148) `passage`
+- **2025-03-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 149)
+- **2025-03-21** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-24** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Do pass
+- **2025-04-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed House (Roll No. 402) `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 403)
+- **2025-04-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-08** House Message received
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/10/2025 `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 224, 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/07495b0f-0ceb-40ae-8c3f-1d2ba59fe922`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+