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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender"
+description: "Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 8"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 8 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Human Services", "Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Thorne"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c2ae889-ca6e-46ed-ab2a-605aef71af42"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=8&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b0eabf59d7c9362f4238a67e805721b3e9c7cccecf19c476f68a634d55745aa2"
+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 8 (2025) — Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender
+
+## 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=sb8%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb8%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb8%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
+4. **sb8 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb8%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **sb8 h jud amt _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb8%20h%20jud%20amt%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Thorne — primary (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Helton — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading
+- **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 19) `passage`
+- **2025-02-24** Ordered to House
+- **2025-02-25** House received Senate message
+- **2025-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-12** With amendments, do pass
+- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-14** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-14** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 93) `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-19** House Message received
+- **2025-03-19** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 128)
+- **2025-03-19** Communicated to House
+- **2025-03-19** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-03-20** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-21** To Governor 3/20/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 46, 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/7c2ae889-ca6e-46ed-ab2a-605aef71af42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+