republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-544.md

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Bill	Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects	Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 544	West Virginia SB 544 (2024)	bill	Municipalities	enacted	Jeffries	7	40	2	2024-01-25	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/728a3e6e-f8f7-4277-99b1-44fb04e2145c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=544&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	dbccc08132ccc7d28d37cb4eb26cd2f97f7b662a0379707edc7e830f347030f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 544 (2024) — Raising threshold for bid requirement of municipal public works projects

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. sb544 hfat criss 2-20 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb544 sfa jeffries _1 2-13 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. sb544 sfat jeffries _1 2-13 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 94–4 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeffries — primary (person)
• Barrett — cosponsor (person)
• Grady — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Plymale — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Swope — cosponsor (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)
• Weld — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-25 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-25 To Economic Development referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-25 To Economic Development referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Committee substitute reported
• 2024-02-09 On 1st reading
• 2024-02-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-12 Laid over on 2nd reading 2/12/2024
• 2024-02-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-14 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-14 Passed Senate (Roll No. 136) passage
• 2024-02-14 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-02-14 Ordered to House
• 2024-02-16 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-16 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-16 Reference dispensed
• 2024-02-19 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-19 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-19 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed House (Roll No. 231) passage
• 2024-02-20 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-27 House Message received
• 2024-02-27 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 277)
• 2024-02-27 Communicated to House
• 2024-02-27 Completed legislative action
• 2024-02-29 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-01 To Governor 3/1/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 To Governor 3/1/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/7/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor 3/7/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/728a3e6e-f8f7-4277-99b1-44fb04e2145c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).