---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repealing section creating A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan"
description: "Repealing section creating A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 734"
citation: "West Virginia SB 734 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-11"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86cbb066-be61-41d6-bb50-431ec0d5d54c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=734&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d3e1f5a8383552a416a1ebf68029be9b6f3e964636bc1a79a8d9ff51d1b789ba"
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 734 (2025) — Repealing section creating A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb734%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=734)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb734%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=734)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **29–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-18** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/18/2025
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 142) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-21** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Do pass
- **2025-04-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 464) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **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`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 56, 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/86cbb066-be61-41d6-bb50-431ec0d5d54c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).