---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the controlled substance schedules and to clean-up errors identified in the code sections"
description: "Relating to the controlled substance schedules and to clean-up errors identified in the code sections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3434"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3434 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b5adad1-c142-44cb-bfb1-45d991e95908"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3434&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "89e2bd81ac24a75275bcf740fea986465009786175fb291b944184f25abdf06e"
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 3434 (2025) — Relating to the controlled substance schedules and to clean-up errors identified in the code sections

## 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=hb3434%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3434)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3434%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3434)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3434%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3434)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **89–3** (pass) · lower
- HFA PUSHKIN 3-26 — **20–71** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-24** Do pass
- **2025-03-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-26** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 201) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed House (Roll No. 222) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-29** 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`
- **2025-04-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 505) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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`
- **2025-07-22** Chapter 62, 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/1b5adad1-c142-44cb-bfb1-45d991e95908`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).