---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims"
description: "Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3157"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3157 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Claims", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d6b8583-f4e3-4896-900e-16959357fc70"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3157&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6357a95c5360681dcaf550abf74bf22c7a912acee55601bc8ea6defac41f34ed"
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 3157 (2025) — Relating to shortened procedure for road condition claims

## 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=hb3157%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3157)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3157%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3157)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3157%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3157)
4. **hb3157 h fin amt adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3157%20h%20fin%20amt%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed House (Roll No. 246) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `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`
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 375) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - 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 55, 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/5d6b8583-f4e3-4896-900e-16959357fc70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).