republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2008.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Executive Branch Reorganization	Executive Branch Reorganization	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2008	West Virginia HB 2008 (2025)	bill	Governor -- Bills Requested By	enacted	Hanshaw	9	60	6	2025-02-18	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/4d24b8df-808c-4bbe-9400-a6b6829e4962	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2008&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1db709c43d9c230dac8d7f7c963e43fd0b2bd8b6055b046c9a210f95f6bc1c55	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2008 (2025) — Executive Branch Reorganization

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. hb2008 hfat phillips 3-11 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2008 hfat phillips 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2008 s gov am _1 3-30 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2008 sfa morris _1 4-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
9. hb2008 sfat rucker _1 4-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 61–37 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — 69–30 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT July 01, 2025 — 83–13 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 65–34 (pass) · lower
• HFA FOGGIN ET AL. 3-11 — 39–59 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Hanshaw — primary (person)
• Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-18 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-18 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-03 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-04 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-04 Placed on House Calendar
• 2025-03-05 On 2nd reading, House Calendar
• 2025-03-11 From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-11 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 51) amendment-failure
• 2025-03-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-11 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-11 Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-11 Passed House (Roll No. 52) passage
• 2025-03-11 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-11 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 55)
• 2025-03-11 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-12 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-12 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Reported do pass, with amendment committee-passage
• 2025-04-04 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-07 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-08 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2025-04-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Committee Amendment Reported
• 2025-04-08 Morris amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-08 Tarr amendments to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 351)
• 2025-04-08 Woelfel amendments to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 352)
• 2025-04-08 Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 353) passage
• 2025-04-08 Rucker title amendment adopted
• 2025-04-08 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 354)
• 2025-04-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-10 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-10 House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 447)
• 2025-04-10 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 448)
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-11 House Message received
• 2025-04-11 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 523)
• 2025-04-11 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 524)
• 2025-04-11 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-11 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-22 To Governor 4/22/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-25 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 135, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d24b8df-808c-4bbe-9400-a6b6829e4962. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).