---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder"
description: "Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2217"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2217 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
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/557863c0-4a7b-4c41-8b68-e80fa9ed8609"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2217&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "385c4392591fbc582572d5e88ef7303e03e956cde4a79793fd914f96c76e23f9"
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 2217 (2025) — Relating to penalties for conspiracy to commit murder

## 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=hb2217%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2217)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2217%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2217)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2217%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2217)
4. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2217%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2217)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2217%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2217)
6. **hb2217 hfat akers 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2217%20hfat%20akers%203-3%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2217 s jud am _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2217%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (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`
- **2025-02-21** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-02-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 23) `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 329) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 409)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 78, 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/557863c0-4a7b-4c41-8b68-e80fa9ed8609`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).