---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act"
description: "Creating the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2509"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2509 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8528dcab-cb74-44c9-8f12-ba2b95230b47"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2509&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5d8765786b62bd4d95481cae794f8ae7c13533c55344b4f48299532f1722e77e"
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 2509 (2023) — Creating the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2509%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2509)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2509%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2509)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2509%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2509)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2509%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2509)
5. **hb2509 hfa young 1-30 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2509 hfa young 1-30 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2509 s jud am _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2509 s jud am _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
7. **hb2509 s jud amt _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2509 s jud amt _1 3-3 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 51) `passage`
- **2023-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 427) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 583)
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-10** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8528dcab-cb74-44c9-8f12-ba2b95230b47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).