---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections"
description: "Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "West Virginia SB 50 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48aaf2df-df00-4178-866d-dcba0b85ed4b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=50&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bc7b491fff6719848d97d41fbc4c946be781a94aea18f29415abc921a3057022"
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 50 (2025) — Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections

## 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=sb50%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=50)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb50%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=50)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb50%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=50)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb50%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=50)
5. **sb50 hfa chiarelli 3-30 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb50%20hfa%20chiarelli%203-30%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb50 sfa weld _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb50%20sfa%20weld%20_1%202-28%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Taylor — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (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`
- **2025-02-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-02-26** On 1st reading
- **2025-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27** On 2nd reading
- **2025-02-27** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/27/2025
- **2025-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 49) `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-02** Do pass
- **2025-04-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Passed House (Roll No. 400) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-08** House Message received
- **2025-04-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House receded and passed (Roll No. 614)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate 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`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 103, 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/48aaf2df-df00-4178-866d-dcba0b85ed4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).