---
type: "Bill"
title: "Terminating certain requirements for Tax Commissioner to submit reports, publish information, and provide notice"
description: "Terminating certain requirements for Tax Commissioner to submit reports, publish information, and provide notice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 876"
citation: "West Virginia SB 876 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-21"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f1688f4-b550-4b2d-b9dc-ad05c341c47d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=876&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9da83c1edb66043130e2711bbe9e5dd037a14bb7a6dfc3f1104f18a4e84ef3fd"
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 876 (2025) — Terminating certain requirements for Tax Commissioner to submit reports, publish information, and provide notice

## 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=sb876%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=876)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb876%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=876)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **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`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 207) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-27** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** To House Finance `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. 468) `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 225, 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/2f1688f4-b550-4b2d-b9dc-ad05c341c47d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).