republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-318.md

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Bill	Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated	Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 318	West Virginia SB 318 (2024)	bill	Juveniles	enacted	Trump	3	32	2	2024-01-11	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/bfcfcdd1-2e30-4eeb-b569-0636001889aa	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=318&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	d14fb4dd46a1c49c20718c6b6b14098744b4b4c75f6d7ca0d4b21e38cb920db3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 318 (2024) — Modifying process of when parental rights are terminated

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

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Trump — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Plymale — cosponsor (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)
• Weld — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-11 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Committee substitute reported
• 2024-01-24 On 1st reading
• 2024-01-24 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-25 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-26 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-26 Passed Senate (Roll No. 67) passage
• 2024-01-26 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-29 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Do pass
• 2024-02-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-09 Passed House (Roll No. 132) passage
• 2024-02-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-02-12 House Message received
• 2024-02-14 To Governor 2/14/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-02-14 To Governor 2/14/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-02-20 Approved by Governor 2/20/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-02-21 Approved by Governor 2/20/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-02-21 Approved by Governor 2/20/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 92, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfcfcdd1-2e30-4eeb-b569-0636001889aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).