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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs"
+description: "Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 794"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 794 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-17"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9933a72c-7f64-41c7-851e-8063fe0c7783"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=794&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "e5235073bcbeec91bcacbdac9f38d43966389db8ba3eb7714d56f92e02d68a6c"
+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 794 (2025) — Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs
+
+## 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=sb794%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb794%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb794%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **83–13** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maynard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-17** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance
+- **2025-03-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-17** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2025-03-24** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2025-03-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-01** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 286) `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Ordered to House
+- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-04-03** To Energy and Public Works
+- **2025-04-03** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-04-08** Do pass
+- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **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** Passed House (Roll No. 518) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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 233, 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/9933a72c-7f64-41c7-851e-8063fe0c7783`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+