---
type: "Bill"
title: "Banning certain products from food in West Virginia"
description: "Banning certain products from food in West Virginia"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2354"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2354 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Protection", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burkhammer"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 52
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3cba58f-bfcb-435c-a5c2-3e977f478015"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2354&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6ae4c3f460890aaa122023a50cd98f00b393d150b0675d3532fd0ee6b058fe19"
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 2354 (2025) — Banning certain products from food in West Virginia

## 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=hb2354%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2354)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2354%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2354)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2354%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2354)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2354%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2354)
5. **hb2354 hfa mcgeehan 3-13 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2354%20hfa%20mcgeehan%203-13%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2354 hfa worrell 2-28 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2354%20hfa%20worrell%202-28%20_1%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2354 hfat mcgeehan 3-13 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2354%20hfat%20mcgeehan%203-13%20adopted.htm)
8. **hb2354 hfat worrell 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2354%20hfat%20worrell%202-28%20adopted.htm)
9. **hb2354 sfa morris _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2354%20sfa%20morris%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **88–8** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **79–17** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burkhammer — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Masters — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-21** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-25** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/26/2025
- **2025-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-26** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/27/2025
- **2025-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 18) `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 19)
- **2025-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-03** Committee reference dispensed
- **2025-03-03** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 64) `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 65)
- **2025-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-13** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 74)
- **2025-03-13** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-13** Effective from passage (Roll No. 75)
- **2025-03-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-14** House Message received
- **2025-03-14** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 111)
- **2025-03-14** Effective from passage (Roll No. 112)
- **2025-03-14** Communicated to House
- **2025-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-17** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** To Governor 3/18/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 206, 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/a3cba58f-bfcb-435c-a5c2-3e977f478015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).