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type: "Bill"
title: "Reducing minimum age for State Police cadet"
description: "Reducing minimum age for State Police cadet"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 712"
citation: "West Virginia SB 712 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deeds"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41ffaf26-bde9-40e2-974c-021307dbb303"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=712&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "63c46bc13ebe2d59f4b3e932afe2958baa3e07b9f0050ee69ced48f6832231d2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---
# West Virginia SB 712 (2024) — Reducing minimum age for State Police cadet
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb712%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=712)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb712%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=712)
## Votes
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **932** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **940** (pass) · lower
- HFA KUMP 2-27 #1**3555** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Deeds — primary (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-21** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 224) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 224)
- **2024-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-26** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-26** Reference dispensed
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-02-27** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 340) `amendment-failure`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Placed on House Calendar
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 434) `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 435)
- **2024-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-04** House Message received
- **2024-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 236, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41ffaf26-bde9-40e2-974c-021307dbb303`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).