---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying authority regarding dams designed by US Conservation Service"
description: "Clarifying authority regarding dams designed by US Conservation Service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 941"
citation: "West Virginia SB 941 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rose"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-29"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60db4fb8-b219-4d3f-bc10-47de9eadbe49"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=941&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5640b828c42c4177970b3993120925f83f8efa0b38a75e53d00d242823aeeac5"
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 941 (2025) — Clarifying authority regarding dams designed by US Conservation Service

## 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=sb941%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=941)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb941%20org.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=941)
3. **sb941 hfat anderson 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb941%20hfat%20anderson%204-11%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rose — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Charnock — cosponsor (person)
- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Helton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-29** Originating in Senate Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-03-29** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31** On 1st reading
- **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 with right to amend
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 292) `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 293)
- **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. 534) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 535)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 559) `passage`
- **2025-04-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 560)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 11, 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/60db4fb8-b219-4d3f-bc10-47de9eadbe49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).