---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment."
description: "Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2066"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2066 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Akers"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2066&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "18b4770a22d34b6bd10d37cd6673e4ab77964369e723a9d3bf7529fe484e7dd4"
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 2066 (2025) — Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment.

## 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=hb2066%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2066%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2066)
5. **hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2066%20hfa%20drennan%20and%20akers%202-23%20_1%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2066%20hfa%20drennan%20and%20akers%202-23%20_1%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2066 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2066%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Akers — primary (person)
- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Howell, T. — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** To House Courts `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-02-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 10) `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 572)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 76, 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/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).