---
type: "Bill"
title: "Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund"
description: "Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 75"
citation: "West Virginia SB 75 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20c80f8b-2f07-4774-9a4b-b6cf0f4330f5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=75&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "291606974c20c350fd23e7779e96347ee540ff296e9a611eb838e755dc227443"
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 75 (2025) — Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund

## 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=sb75%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=75)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb75%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=75)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–28** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **25–9** (pass) · upper
- SHALL THE BILL BE REJECTED — **9–88** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 145) `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-24** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Do pass
- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** Motion shall the bill be rejected failed (Roll No. 440)
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Motion to table the motion to postpone indefinitely rejected
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 499) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate 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 220, 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/20c80f8b-2f07-4774-9a4b-b6cf0f4330f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).