---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls"
description: "Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 487"
citation: "West Virginia SB 487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1d0d01-3f21-4a5f-8d7a-0feffd8dd2aa"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=487&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0e41d58c78e1247a1a3628544c3a4c4c12b88b7605306593c9f8f2da5268e21b"
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 487 (2025) — Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls

## 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=sb487%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb487%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb487%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=487)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **84–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (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`
- **2025-02-28** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 62) `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-12** Do pass
- **2025-03-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 94) `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-17** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-18** House Message received
- **2025-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26** To Governor 3/19/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 105, 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/ae1d0d01-3f21-4a5f-8d7a-0feffd8dd2aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).