republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2026.md

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Bill	Budget Bill	Budget Bill	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2026	West Virginia HB 2026 (2025)	bill		enacted	Hanshaw	8	62	6	2025-02-12	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/a230de8e-3462-4471-999a-2a669addb871	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2026&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	a0f628f88b3003fd1f2f8d4a86d382a732f7a0d5387c94f67dcbc6d9758773dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2026 (2025) — Budget Bill

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
4. hb2026 hfa criss _1 4-10 rev 2 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb2026 hfa hite 4-4 _2 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2026 hfa statler 4-3 _2 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2026 hfa statler 4-3 _2 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2026 sfa barrett _1 4-8 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• BUDGET BILL — 80–17 (pass) · lower
• HFA HORNBUCKLE 4-3 #1 — 19–75 (fail) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 89–8 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 88–8 (pass) · lower
• BUDGET BILL — 78–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Finance referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-12 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-04-02 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-03 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-04 On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-04 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 384) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-04 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-04 Passed House (Roll No. 385) passage
• 2025-04-05 Effective from passage (Roll No. 386)
• 2025-04-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-07 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-07 Committee reference dispensed
• 2025-04-07 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-08 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-09 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2025-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Floor amendment to include the provisions of S.B.300 adopted (voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 Passed Senate (Roll No. 389) passage
• 2025-04-09 Effective from passage (Roll No. 390)
• 2025-04-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-10 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-10 House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 495)
• 2025-04-11 Effective from passage (Roll No. 496)
• 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. 517)
• 2025-04-11 Effective from passage (Roll No. 518)
• 2025-04-11 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-11 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-15 To Governor 4/15/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor with deletions and reductions 4/17/2025 - Senate Journal
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor with deletions and reductions 4/17/2025
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor with deletions and reductions4/17/2025 - House Journal
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 37, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a230de8e-3462-4471-999a-2a669addb871. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).