---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing digital court records"
description: "Authorizing digital court records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 621"
citation: "West Virginia SB 621 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Willis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5988d70-f937-4a17-9cdc-721478dfd03c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=621&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "18efdd341407f7d3916e1efd41030aeae214c729a9776a36c725af35207a3ddc"
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 621 (2025) — Authorizing digital court records

## 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=sb621%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=621)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb621%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=621)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Willis — primary (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — 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`
- **2025-03-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 136) `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-20** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** Reference dispensed
- **2025-03-20** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 164) `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 70, 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/c5988d70-f937-4a17-9cdc-721478dfd03c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).