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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas"
+description: "Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 5401"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5401 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Funkhouser"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-02-10"
+last_action: "2026-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b63dc128-231e-4237-9acb-75a610be035c"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5401&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ee43ed3474fc882d08f964df58d6e1dc1025563f534f42b02a2caf3f588dc13d"
+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 HB 5401 (2026) — Relating to voting in West Virginia elections while residing overseas
+
+## 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=hb5401%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5401)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5401%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5401)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5401%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5401)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5401%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5401)
+5. **hb5401 s jud am 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5401%20s%20jud%20am%203-11%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb5401 s jud amt 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5401%20s%20jud%20amt%203-11%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT Jan 01, 2027 — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Funkhouser — primary (person)
+- Akers — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Flanigan — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Masters — cosponsor (person)
+- Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Roop — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-02-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** Markup Discussion
+- **2026-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-18** Markup Discussion
+- **2026-02-26** By substitute, do pass
+- **2026-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 267) `passage`
+- **2026-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-12** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 566) `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 651)
+- **2026-03-14** Effective January 1, 2027 (Roll No. 652)
+- **2026-03-14** House requests Senate to concur in changed effective date
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-14** Effective ninety days from passage
+- **2026-03-30** To Governor 3/30/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/30/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-29** Chapter 136, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b63dc128-231e-4237-9acb-75a610be035c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+