republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/sb-351.md

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Bill	Permitting ballot commissioners serve while candidates for certain offices	Permitting ballot commissioners serve while candidates for certain offices	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	SB 351	West Virginia SB 351 (2018)	bill	Elections	enacted	Trump	2	33	3	2018-01-23	2018-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/92b6173a-cb6d-4c49-9ece-873e505a7b68	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=351&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	59e8b265b2b7c6619fe536ac50dadd865294576b810fba135de8045c4cedef8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 351 (2018) — Permitting ballot commissioners serve while candidates for certain offices

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Originating in Committee (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 27–5 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 86–13 (pass) · legislature
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 94–5 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Trump — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Clements — cosponsor (person)
• Cline — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Karnes — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Ojeda — cosponsor (person)
• Romano — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Swope — cosponsor (person)
• Weld — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-23 Originating in Senate Judiciary
• 2018-01-23 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2018-01-24 On 1st reading
• 2018-01-24 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-25 On 2nd reading
• 2018-01-25 Senator Baldwin requests to be removed as sponsor of bill
• 2018-01-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-26 On 3rd reading
• 2018-01-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-26 Passed Senate (Roll No. 25) passage
• 2018-01-26 Effective from passage (Roll No. 25)
• 2018-01-26 Ordered to House
• 2018-01-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-29 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-29 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Do pass
• 2018-03-02 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-03 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 315) passage
• 2018-03-05 Effective from passage (Roll No. 316)
• 2018-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-06 House Message received
• 2018-03-09 To Governor 3/9/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-20 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-23 Chapter 77, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92b6173a-cb6d-4c49-9ece-873e505a7b68. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).