---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board"
description: "Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2479"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2479 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynor"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1a0bb33-1fac-4c92-8141-ffe776a7c673"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2479&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c4b03aba3f6ddcda3d4d28e25ea966ba1a5113eb25b4ea08b161f0e7e1ad35b2"
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 2479 (2025) — Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2479%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2479)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2479%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2479)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2479%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2479)
4. **hb2479 sfat rucker _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2479%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maynor — primary (person)
- Browning — cosponsor (person)
- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Petitto — cosponsor (person)
- Roop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Do pass, but first to Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-26** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-18** Do pass
- **2025-03-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-21** Passed House (Roll No. 134) `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 429) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-10** 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. 592)
- **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`
- **2025-04-25** 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`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 67, 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/a1a0bb33-1fac-4c92-8141-ffe776a7c673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).