---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property"
description: "Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "West Virginia SB 257 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Real and Personal Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grady"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=257&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ec78a3fa610a91dbfc3fe3ca18a5d5d0c2ab7356e18396265af80ce183da414c"
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 257 (2025) — Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb257%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=257)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb257%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=257)
3. **sb257 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb257%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Grady — 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`
- **2025-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 90) `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
- **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** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 415) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **2025-04-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 417)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House 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 45, 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/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).