---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 325"
citation: "West Virginia SB 325 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 49
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bb946cb-47ad-42c0-a7c7-2ce5baba4b9d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=325&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "019b34317333aa9108fad213f3517ae6ee890d291fe09eb57027e107cea6531f"
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 325 (2025) — Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules

## 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=sb325%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=325)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb325%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=325)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb325%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=325)
4. **sb325 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb325%20h%20hhr%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb325 hfat worrell 3-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb325%20hfat%20worrell%203-24%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb325 sfa martin 4-7 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb325%20sfa%20martin%204-7%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — 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 Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 81) `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 82)
- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-03** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed House (Roll No. 389) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 390)
- **2025-04-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** Senate amended House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 450)
- **2025-04-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 451)
- **2025-04-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 560)
- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 561)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **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 163, 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/4bb946cb-47ad-42c0-a7c7-2ce5baba4b9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).