---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 358"
citation: "West Virginia SB 358 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a8f1b9e-c1ea-49e7-9bd8-45587fcece9c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=358&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "199769c911f3de602efb945d4b659d8fb486bb96f1e19c663d61b28168cf517d"
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 358 (2025) — Authorizing Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules

## 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=sb358%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=358)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb358%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=358)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb358%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=358)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2025-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 35) `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 36)
- **2025-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2025-02-27** House received Senate message
- **2025-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-27** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-27** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-07** Do pass
- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 60) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 61)
- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-13** House Message received
- **2025-03-14** To Governor 3/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/20/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 165, 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/6a8f1b9e-c1ea-49e7-9bd8-45587fcece9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).