republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5298.md

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Bill	Relating to prohibiting a candidate who failed to secure the nomination of a political party in a primary election from seeking the same elected office as an affiliate with a different political party in the subsequent general election	Relating to prohibiting a candidate who failed to secure the nomination of a political party in a primary election from seeking the same elected office as an affiliate with a different political party in the subsequent general election	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5298	West Virginia HB 5298 (2024)	bill	Elections	enacted	Espinosa	3	41	5	2024-01-29	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/dfba82df-8afd-4921-8ecf-ddd441f1209b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5298&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	0056f15ca95c3f526b7850c5ab7768f1cf0304ea045a0962ccc20fa5039d010b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5298 (2024) — Relating to prohibiting a candidate who failed to secure the nomination of a political party in a primary election from seeking the same elected office as an affiliate with a different political party in the subsequent general election

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
3. hb5298 s jud am _1 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT Jan 01, 2025 — 95–2 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT Jan 01, 2025 — 89–2 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 88–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Espinosa — primary (person)
• Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-29 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-29 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Do pass
• 2024-02-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-08 Passed House (Roll No. 130) passage
• 2024-02-08 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 131)
• 2024-02-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-09 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-09 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-01 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-04 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 340) passage
• 2024-03-04 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 340)
• 2024-03-04 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 521)
• 2024-03-07 Effective January 1,2025 (Roll No. 522)
• 2024-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-08 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 126, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfba82df-8afd-4921-8ecf-ddd441f1209b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).