---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor"
description: "Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 500"
citation: "West Virginia SB 500 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chapman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7d7aa49-bb01-4914-8c58-0740f24194e7"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=500&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3cf1fa526f787ab1d0a42cec9d43b6ba9db79e374df9943431d6a69ab97250ff"
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 500 (2025) — Transferring audits of volunteer fire departments to Legislative Auditor

## 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=sb500%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=500)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb500%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=500)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb500%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=500)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chapman — primary (person)
- Deeds — 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`
- **2025-03-07** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 97) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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`
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Passed House (Roll No. 401) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-08** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/10/2025 `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 127, 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/c7d7aa49-bb01-4914-8c58-0740f24194e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).