---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs"
description: "Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 794"
citation: "West Virginia SB 794 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9933a72c-7f64-41c7-851e-8063fe0c7783"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=794&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e5235073bcbeec91bcacbdac9f38d43966389db8ba3eb7714d56f92e02d68a6c"
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 794 (2025) — Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs

## 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=sb794%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb794%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb794%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=794)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **83–13** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-17** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance
- **2025-03-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-24** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2025-03-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 286) `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Ordered to House
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-04-03** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-04-03** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-08** Do pass
- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 518) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 233, 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/9933a72c-7f64-41c7-851e-8063fe0c7783`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).