republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2021/sb-537.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating generally to kidnapping	Relating generally to kidnapping	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2021	SB 537	West Virginia SB 537 (2021)	bill	Crime	enacted	Azinger	2	31	1	2021-03-02	2021-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/d29259d5-883e-4a6e-91e8-e6dcc42ff438	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=537&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	9ed308aba21a423609021011519626262a1166dfb95123e20547973b4648ce39	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 537 (2021) — Relating generally to kidnapping

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 — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Azinger — primary (person)
• Beach — cosponsor (person)
• Caputo — cosponsor (person)
• Grady — cosponsor (person)
• Karnes — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Romano — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Trump — cosponsor (person)
• Weld — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-02 Originating in Senate Judiciary
• 2021-03-02 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2021-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2021-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-05 On 3rd reading
• 2021-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-05 Passed Senate (Roll No. 81) passage
• 2021-03-05 Ordered to House
• 2021-03-08 Introduced in House introduction
• 2021-03-08 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-03-08 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Do pass
• 2021-04-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-04-08 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-09 Passed House (Roll No. 557) passage
• 2021-04-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-04-09 Completed legislative action
• 2021-04-10 House Message received
• 2021-04-16 To Governor 4/16/21 executive-receipt
• 2021-04-10 To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-10 To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-26 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 executive-signature
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
• 2021-05-24 Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d29259d5-883e-4a6e-91e8-e6dcc42ff438. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).