republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5561.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 to permitting the electronic execution of trusts.	Relating to permitting the electronic execution of trusts.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5561	West Virginia HB 5561 (2024)	bill	Estates and Trusts	enacted	Barnhart	5	38	3	2024-02-12	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b3c777fc-3e77-4ee0-9823-ceed8bc02e64	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5561&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e91ed9d34f63bbe0ac9cf859b26a5ce5162865434b3931073056dcfe2fd42c52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5561 (2024) — Relating to permitting the electronic execution of trusts.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb5561 s jud am _1 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5561 s jud amt _1 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barnhart — primary (person)
• Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Criss — cosponsor (person)
• Hott — cosponsor (person)
• Westfall — cosponsor (person)
• Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-02-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-12 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-21 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-22 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-23 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed House (Roll No. 277) passage
• 2024-02-23 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-06 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-07 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 455) passage
• 2024-03-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-08 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 700)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 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 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 135, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b3c777fc-3e77-4ee0-9823-ceed8bc02e64. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).