---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public"
description: "Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 244"
citation: "West Virginia SB 244 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Professions and Occupations", "Records and Papers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-16"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c87fd835-3f9c-442c-8dc3-3318345b8b8a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=244&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8752bb06892acdc58a8a151c3c3b1762caf76c15f229ffeef2281545ab1e4d5f"
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 244 (2023) — Making rosters of individuals who obtain professional, occupational, and trade licenses, registrations, and certificates available to public

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb244%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=244)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb244%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=244)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** On 1st reading
- **2023-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** On 2nd reading
- **2023-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25** On 3rd reading
- **2023-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 70) `passage`
- **2023-01-25** Ordered to House
- **2023-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Do pass
- **2023-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 593) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-10** House Message received
- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 229, 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/c87fd835-3f9c-442c-8dc3-3318345b8b8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).