---
type: "Bill"
title: "Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025"
description: "Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 458"
citation: "West Virginia SB 458 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/648e64b6-4c0d-4fa2-93f0-6d5fc50a3c18"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=458&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "88868a7b0ad4bbd1f3bb3f1704b0e746ec3906ca08725aa9ce47b2664f254032"
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 458 (2025) — Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025

## 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=sb458%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb458%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb458%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=458)
4. **sb458 h go am _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb458%20h%20go%20am%20_1%203-26%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 83) `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-26** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 256) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-02** House Message received
- **2025-04-02** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 275)
- **2025-04-02** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-02** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** To Governor 4/3/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03** To Governor 4/3/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07** Approved by Governor 4/7/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/7/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 194, 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/648e64b6-4c0d-4fa2-93f0-6d5fc50a3c18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).