---
type: "Bill"
title: "Discouraging gang activity"
description: "Discouraging gang activity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 617"
citation: "West Virginia SB 617 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9ef8ff1-0f50-42c6-8fc2-a06cd39a21f8"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=617&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "26d0b1414c03a157410e0c2fc7cbb89e8385eb51b920df57f08bd647ca8c3468"
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 617 (2025) — Discouraging gang activity

## 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=sb617%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=617)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb617%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=617)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb617%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=617)
4. **sb617 hfa akers 4-9 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb617%20hfa%20akers%204-9%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb617 hfat akers 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb617%20hfat%20akers%204-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **88–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roberts — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Helton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-24** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 184) `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-03** Do pass
- **2025-04-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/9/2025
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-09** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 433) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 452)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House 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`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 207, 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/b9ef8ff1-0f50-42c6-8fc2-a06cd39a21f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).