---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender"
description: "Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "West Virginia SB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thorne"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c2ae889-ca6e-46ed-ab2a-605aef71af42"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=8&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b0eabf59d7c9362f4238a67e805721b3e9c7cccecf19c476f68a634d55745aa2"
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 8 (2025) — Providing additional sites and devices for newborn safe surrender

## 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=sb8%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb8%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb8%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=8)
4. **sb8 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb8%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb8 h jud amt _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb8%20h%20jud%20amt%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thorne — primary (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Helton — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 19) `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Ordered to House
- **2025-02-25** House received Senate message
- **2025-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-12** With amendments, do pass
- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-14** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-14** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 93) `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-19** House Message received
- **2025-03-19** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 128)
- **2025-03-19** Communicated to House
- **2025-03-19** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-20** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** To Governor 3/20/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 46, 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/7c2ae889-ca6e-46ed-ab2a-605aef71af42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).