---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act"
description: "Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2434"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2434 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28210495-ef37-426b-9d00-06a5bcc23d24"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2434&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6e64a96f891b903c906f77295150eb899e42e1a36eb77658dcd2874286db5255"
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 2434 (2025) — Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act

## 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=hb2434%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2434)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2434%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2434)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2434%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2434)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2434%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2434)
5. **hb2434 hfa flanigan 3-4 _1 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2434%20hfa%20flanigan%203-4%20_1%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2434 hfa flanigan 3-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2434%20hfa%20flanigan%203-4%20_1%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2434 hfat akers 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2434%20hfat%20akers%204-9%20adopted.htm)
8. **hb2434 s jud am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2434%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hornby — primary (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-28** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 29) `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 361) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 485)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 529)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 219, 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/28210495-ef37-426b-9d00-06a5bcc23d24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).