---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes"
description: "Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 844"
citation: "West Virginia SB 844 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e982a54-4c01-4326-85a4-6a0a6973ee03"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=844&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b865e11a59b03753f24b152d8aef4e4c7bca2d7d45d8260784516f50b8d217c6"
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 844 (2025) — Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes

## 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=sb844%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=844)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb844%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=844)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb844%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=844)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **86–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-20** To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-26** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 213) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Do pass
- **2025-04-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 467) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **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`
- **2025-04-25** 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 10, 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/0e982a54-4c01-4326-85a4-6a0a6973ee03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).