---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance"
description: "Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 856"
citation: "West Virginia SB 856 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/790ba5d2-eef0-4675-ae0b-6d938266dbd9"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=856&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0fa3f2844ac50f4dc03f8c2225fb2000f1166314d29f4bfba53943a6d2975c44"
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 856 (2025) — Removing certain reporting requirements to Joint Committee on Government and Finance

## 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=sb856%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=856)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb856%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=856)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-25** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 201) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-27** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-27** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Do pass
- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/11/2025
- **2025-04-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12** Passed House (Roll No. 566) `passage`
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **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`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 131, 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/790ba5d2-eef0-4675-ae0b-6d938266dbd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).