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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund"
+description: "Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 75"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 75 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20c80f8b-2f07-4774-9a4b-b6cf0f4330f5"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=75&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "291606974c20c350fd23e7779e96347ee540ff296e9a611eb838e755dc227443"
+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 75 (2025) — Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund
+
+## 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=sb75%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=75)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb75%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=75)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **69–28** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **25–9** (pass) · upper
+- SHALL THE BILL BE REJECTED — **9–88** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** 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. 145) `passage`
+- **2025-03-21** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-24** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Do pass
+- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-09** Motion shall the bill be rejected failed (Roll No. 440)
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Motion to table the motion to postpone indefinitely rejected
+- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 499) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate 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 220, 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/20c80f8b-2f07-4774-9a4b-b6cf0f4330f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+