---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP"
description: "Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 823"
citation: "West Virginia SB 823 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/804165de-8830-4a38-940e-0b6601c2c079"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=823&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "22f82120ac917343e1d45505dc41883fac85cc59ccd23548d008a69cb7357589"
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 823 (2025) — Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP

## 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=sb823%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
5. **sb823 sfa rucker _1 3-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb823%20sfa%20rucker%20_1%203-25%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb823 sfat rucker _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb823%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%203-26%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-25** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 197) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-03-27** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-27** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-27** Reference dispensed
- **2025-03-27** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 257) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-01** House Message received
- **2025-04-02** To Governor 4/2/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-02** To Governor 4/2/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 114, 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/804165de-8830-4a38-940e-0b6601c2c079`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).