---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers."
description: "Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2360"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2360 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddd9c00c-98a9-44bc-bcc0-49a5538a8129"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2360&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f4498cba2a349ff6ce9211c09eb4aa512576c09754ba6aa70357da8889d2f65e"
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 HB 2360 (2025) — Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2360%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2360)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2360%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2360)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2360%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2360)
4. **hb2360 hfat akers 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2360%20hfat%20akers%202-27%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2360 s jud am _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2360%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2360 sfat stuart _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2360%20sfat%20stuart%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-28** Do pass
- **2025-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 28) `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 330) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 410)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **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 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 73, 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/ddd9c00c-98a9-44bc-bcc0-49a5538a8129`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).