---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting West Virginia Secretary of State from competitive bidding process"
description: "Exempting West Virginia Secretary of State from competitive bidding process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 485"
citation: "West Virginia SB 485 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07be3afe-41f0-4389-b490-70545f976def"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=485&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c325217a612d6b0c751fdc7d0ce4d23ab63b7d55f58e6e76cc03af216d2285b7"
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 485 (2025) — Exempting West Virginia Secretary of State from competitive bidding process

## 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=sb485%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=485)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb485%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=485)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb485%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=485)
4. **sb485 h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb485%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb485 hfat phillips 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb485%20hfat%20phillips%204-9%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **77–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14** To Government Organization `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. 84) `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 430) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 457)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 126, 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/07be3afe-41f0-4389-b490-70545f976def`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).