---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring utility work and road paving coordination"
description: "Requiring utility work and road paving coordination"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "West Virginia SB 1 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chapman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7066f169-3e86-4a91-b9aa-5d9dc53be70f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=1&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ac07586716e4200c728e0a377a2cdf047014d09f39c70b00fbb1763f50d5724c"
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 SB 1 (2025) — Requiring utility work and road paving coordination

## 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=sb1%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=1)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=1)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=1)
4. **sb1 hfa devault _ riley 4-4 _1 revised adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb1%20hfa%20devault%20_%20riley%204-4%20_1%20revised%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb1 riley _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb1%20riley%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chapman — primary (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Government Organization
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-11** Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 156) `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-26** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-07** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 413) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 519)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 231, 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/7066f169-3e86-4a91-b9aa-5d9dc53be70f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).