republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-837.md

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Bill	Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration	Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 837	West Virginia SB 837 (2024)	bill	Courts	enacted	Weld	2	36	3	2024-02-16	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/8abd7ef0-9ef6-4ff1-84d6-8d060bc6e9ba	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=837&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3aee68d576a138e0bee4ae3e8a53422629634123cd2113191dbefd9701464b83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 837 (2024) — Reorganizing offices of Public Defender Corporations to conform to circuit reconfiguration

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 — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-02-16 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-16 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-27 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (Roll No. 302) passage
• 2024-02-28 Effective from passage (Roll No. 302)
• 2024-02-28 Ordered to House
• 2024-02-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-29 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Do pass
• 2024-03-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-09 Passed House (Roll No. 713) passage
• 2024-03-09 Effective from passage (Roll No. 714)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 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
• 2024-03-13 Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/13/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 78, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8abd7ef0-9ef6-4ff1-84d6-8d060bc6e9ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).