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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to publication of registered lobbyist information"
+description: "Relating to publication of registered lobbyist information"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 736"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 736 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Ethics"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-11"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50148a45-2d33-43c4-85dc-2b4efc2c030f"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=736&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d0b14a0e34cde80d75632c0ca709dbecac9fd967470250b471bddc98a7c770b8"
+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 736 (2025) — Relating to publication of registered lobbyist information
+
+## 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=sb736%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=736)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb736%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=736)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb736%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=736)
+4. **sb736 sub h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb736%20sub%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-17** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-18** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/18/2025
+- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 143) `passage`
+- **2025-03-20** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-21** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment ruled not germane
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 434) `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-10** House Message received
+- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 460)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal `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 174, 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/50148a45-2d33-43c4-85dc-2b4efc2c030f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+