---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration"
description: "Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 837"
citation: "West Virginia SB 837 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8abd7ef0-9ef6-4ff1-84d6-8d060bc6e9ba"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=837&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3aee68d576a138e0bee4ae3e8a53422629634123cd2113191dbefd9701464b83"
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 837 (2024) — Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration

## 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=sb837%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=837)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb837%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=837)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-02-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 302) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 302)
- **2024-02-28** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Do pass
- **2024-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 713) `passage`
- **2024-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 714)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-12** To Governor 3/12/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/13/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 78, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8abd7ef0-9ef6-4ff1-84d6-8d060bc6e9ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).