---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying requirements for persons employed by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation include contracted vendor staff"
description: "Clarifying requirements for persons employed by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation include contracted vendor staff"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 828"
citation: "West Virginia SB 828 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/512f0529-e6d4-446a-bdab-eeb5227ee810"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=828&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3263001e77a124edd5ec08c8905c140ec2fbb7ef1d83c892db757ea3d2c98b31"
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 828 (2025) — Clarifying requirements for persons employed by Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation include contracted vendor staff

## 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=sb828%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=828)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb828%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=828)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **90–7** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-29** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-29** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 267) `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Ordered to House
- **2025-04-02** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-04-02** Reference dispensed
- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed House (Roll No. 394) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-07** House Message received
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 63, 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/512f0529-e6d4-446a-bdab-eeb5227ee810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).