---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing fixed odds racing in horse and dog racing"
description: "Authorizing fixed odds racing in horse and dog racing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 576"
citation: "West Virginia SB 576 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Gaming"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barrett"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51ba0c8d-ae4e-4e22-9418-61593e445790"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=576&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5675d336f9f3caefbac0f184e28e8bc6c0d24c567fe99daeaa4c918d67dc3511"
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 576 (2025) — Authorizing fixed odds racing in horse and dog racing

## 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=sb576%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=576)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb576%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=576)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb576%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=576)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb576%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=576)
5. **sb576 hfin am adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb576%20hfin%20am%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb576 sfa barrett _1 3-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb576%20sfa%20barrett%20_1%203-27%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **24–9** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **55–43** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barrett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-26** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-28** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/28/2025
- **2025-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 219) `passage`
- **2025-03-29** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Motion to table the motion to postpone indefinitely rejected
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 510) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 552)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 221, 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/51ba0c8d-ae4e-4e22-9418-61593e445790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).