---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing director of WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training discretion and authority in certain appointments"
description: "Providing director of WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training discretion and authority in certain appointments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 883"
citation: "West Virginia SB 883 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillips"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04f0d027-ae44-4ccc-b355-039aff30f32c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=883&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d93f63dac44bc0c91d0f2340aa66df97f34e0e28a390b534ef2f15b910167a09"
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 883 (2025) — Providing director of WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training discretion and authority in certain appointments

## 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=sb883%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=883)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb883%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=883)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb883%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=883)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Phillips — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-24** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-03-29** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-31** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 288) `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Ordered to House
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-04-03** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-04-03** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Do pass
- **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`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 527) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** 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 180, 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/04f0d027-ae44-4ccc-b355-039aff30f32c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).