---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing outdated provisions governing political committees"
description: "Removing outdated provisions governing political committees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 492"
citation: "West Virginia SB 492 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34d317ab-5d47-46ff-bba2-cc555d3d9b83"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=492&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9b39d106972121b2602dee061bdd6100c57f2d3fdcc0ed3e22bb941bb49eac72"
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# West Virginia SB 492 (2025) — Removing outdated provisions governing political committees

## 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=sb492%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=492)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb492%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=492)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **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. 85) `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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-19** Do pass
- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 163) `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-24** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-25** House Message received
- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 107, 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/34d317ab-5d47-46ff-bba2-cc555d3d9b83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).