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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules"
+description: "Authorizing Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 251"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 251 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-15"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af175f70-5d09-4de8-b424-da4e9da8d432"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=251&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "52547df87af16d5c014f90f24335ac1ee19e20f2e33a3a358ded7b5964e882ad"
+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 251 (2026) — Authorizing Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules
+
+## 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=sb251%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=251)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb251%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=251)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb251%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=251)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-11** Committee substitute reported
+- **2026-02-12** On 1st reading
+- **2026-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-13** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-16** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-16** Passed Senate (Roll No. 93) `passage`
+- **2026-02-16** Effective from passage (Roll No. 94)
+- **2026-02-16** Ordered to House
+- **2026-02-17** House received Senate message
+- **2026-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-17** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-17** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** Do pass
+- **2026-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 180) `passage`
+- **2026-02-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 181)
+- **2026-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-02-25** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-02-26** House Message received
+- **2026-02-27** To Governor 2/27/26 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-02-27** To Governor 2/27/2026 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 213, 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/af175f70-5d09-4de8-b424-da4e9da8d432`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+