---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing that causes of action under Chapter 46A of the Code of West Virginia survive the death of the party"
description: "Providing that causes of action under Chapter 46A of the Code of West Virginia survive the death of the party"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3162"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3162 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flanigan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14783329-416b-49dd-b3a8-5173fd49df39"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3162&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f86521fc42573413b5a01180d2465fd674831314b630b7f2f9d27741c472fcfa"
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 3162 (2025) — Providing that causes of action under Chapter 46A of the Code of West Virginia survive the death of the party

## 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=hb3162%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3162)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3162%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3162)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3162%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3162)
4. **hb3162 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3162%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flanigan — primary (person)
- Roop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** To House Courts `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-14** Do pass
- **2025-03-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** Passed House (Roll No. 115) `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** B&I amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2025-04-10** Judiciary 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. 488) `passage`
- **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. 642)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - 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`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 121, 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/14783329-416b-49dd-b3a8-5173fd49df39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).