---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to conditions on holding online raffles"
description: "Relating to conditions on holding online raffles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2491"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2491 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Gaming"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crouse"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d599e4a-3aa1-4eea-9c6e-fba0850e137b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2491&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0b3c027671813f618d506fcc976ae55401217dabb701a9ca7ab6f1f6a17a0993"
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 2491 (2025) — Relating to conditions on holding online raffles

## 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=hb2491%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2491)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2491%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2491)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2491%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2491)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2491%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2491)

## Votes

- Passage — **21–13** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crouse — primary (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed House (Roll No. 311) `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 430) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 122, 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/6d599e4a-3aa1-4eea-9c6e-fba0850e137b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).