---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places"
description: "Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2511"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2511 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Liquors and Beers", "Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 48
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-01"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/002d0bb6-72c3-48b9-ad21-defb9cc4c2e4"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2511&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "da68b85eed544904f3f675c5b88739e92496d3cf904629adcaf3969cb268b2ea"
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 2511 (2025) — Relating to charitable bingo and alcohol sales and consumption while such bingo is taking places

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No. 26)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/house/00026.pdf)
2. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2511%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2511)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2511%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2511)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2511%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2511)
5. **hb2511 hfa hite 3-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2511%20hfa%20hite%203-4%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2511 s jud am _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2511%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2511 sfat stuart _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2511%20sfat%20stuart%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- HFA ANDERS 3-3 #1 — **22–77** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **67–30** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **23–11** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **77–21** (pass) · lower
- HFA HITE 3-4 #1 — **55–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Clay — cosponsor (person)
- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Ridenour — cosponsor (person)
- Roop — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** To House Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-28** Do pass
- **2025-03-03** On 1st 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** Motion to recommit to Judiciary rejected
- **2025-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 25) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-04** Amendment adopted (Roll No. 26)
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 31) `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`
- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **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. 475) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
- **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. 603)
- **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`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 123, 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/002d0bb6-72c3-48b9-ad21-defb9cc4c2e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).