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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance"
+description: "Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 856"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 856 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-20"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/790ba5d2-eef0-4675-ae0b-6d938266dbd9"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=856&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "0fa3f2844ac50f4dc03f8c2225fb2000f1166314d29f4bfba53943a6d2975c44"
+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 856 (2025) — Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance
+
+## 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=sb856%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=856)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb856%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=856)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-25** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 201) `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-27** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-27** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** 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`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-10** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/11/2025
+- **2025-04-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-12** Passed House (Roll No. 566) `passage`
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** 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`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 131, 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/790ba5d2-eef0-4675-ae0b-6d938266dbd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+