republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-166.md

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Bill	Updating contested elections procedures	Updating contested elections procedures	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 166	West Virginia SB 166 (2024)	bill	Elections	enacted	Chapman	2	37	3	2024-01-10	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/3fc83b3e-9436-4cd2-a998-c339dcc16e76	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=166&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	55c7dd44e6981b9108e75a3d706223e7bec2a4453250d68319d99bb3ceacf186	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 166 (2024) — Updating contested elections procedures

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

Votes

• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT Jan 01, 2025 — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chapman — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Hunt — cosponsor (person)
• Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Swope — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-10 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-01-10 Immediate consideration
• 2024-01-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-11 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-12 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-12 Passed Senate (Roll No. 23) passage
• 2024-01-12 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-15 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Do pass
• 2024-03-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Passed House (Roll No. 540) passage
• 2024-03-07 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 541)
• 2024-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 House Message received
• 2024-03-08 Senate concurred in House changed effective date
• 2024-03-08 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 464)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-12 To Governor 3/12/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/12/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/12/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 120, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3fc83b3e-9436-4cd2-a998-c339dcc16e76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).