---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding powers of National Park Service law-enforcement officers"
description: "Expanding powers of National Park Service law-enforcement officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "West Virginia SB 225 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7db7da4e-ac0d-47e6-a819-fee34220b079"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=225&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0e7d4718d9dda66aa1b55a6149c7695d8e172c6b23be9f37986fb6ce2d39fc84"
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 225 (2025) — Expanding powers of National Park Service law-enforcement officers

## 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=sb225%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=225)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb225%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=225)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb225%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=225)
4. **sb225 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb225%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb225 sfat martin _1 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb225%20sfat%20martin%20_1%204-11%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **81–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **79–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 208) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 209)
- **2025-03-28** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-07** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-09** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 460) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 461)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-11** Senate amended House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 499)
- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 500)
- **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. 615)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 158, 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/7db7da4e-ac0d-47e6-a819-fee34220b079`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).