---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prompt Payment Act of 2025"
description: "Prompt Payment Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2152"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2152 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burkhammer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef45cc45-c7c7-49e8-b226-71973054bfbb"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2152&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f39cf347eec222e43adcf52fd3af062169149ab962e7828747794bc69630ff19"
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 2152 (2025) — Prompt Payment Act of 2025

## 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=hb2152%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2152)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2152%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2152)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2152%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2152)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2152%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2152)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burkhammer — primary (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** To House Government Adminstration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-20** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed House (Roll No. 309) `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 310)
- **2025-04-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 391) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 137, 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/ef45cc45-c7c7-49e8-b226-71973054bfbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).