---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring registered sex offenders pay annual fee"
description: "Requiring registered sex offenders pay annual fee"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3164"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flanigan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f4e4a70-04e5-483a-b766-23c1cfbb4b8e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3164&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3494facb14062ff9a87b953a1706e75951605af8440cc2b3145e0473965b9601"
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 3164 (2025) — Requiring registered sex offenders pay annual fee

## 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=hb3164%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3164)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3164%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3164)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3164%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3164)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3164%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3164)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **88–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flanigan — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Dillon — cosponsor (person)
- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — 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`
- **2025-03-20** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-25** By substitute, do pass
- **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. 247) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-11** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 603) `passage`
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** 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`
- **2025-04-28** 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 81, 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/3f4e4a70-04e5-483a-b766-23c1cfbb4b8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).