republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2042.md

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Bill	Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate	Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2042	West Virginia HB 2042 (2025)	bill	Health	enacted	Burkhammer	8	46	3	2025-02-12	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/df2493ae-5d80-468c-80f0-848a0be3358e	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2042&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	35c8ab2dcd6ea6b4514f5af3c2735d7dddacc52b3af0ff9cc2cba2949b6a33b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2042 (2025) — Relating to allowing a guardian ad litem to request the appointment of a court appointed special advocate

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. hb2042 hfat akers 2-24 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2042 hfat mcgeehan 4-1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2042 s jud am _1 3-10 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2042 s jud amt _1 3-10 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burkhammer — primary (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-13 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 To House Courts referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-18 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-20 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-02-20 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-02-24 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-02-25 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-02-25 Passed House (Roll No. 9) passage
• 2025-02-25 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-02-25 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-02-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2025-03-12 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-12 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-13 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-13 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-14 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-14 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 117) passage
• 2025-03-14 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-03 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-03 House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 367)
• 2025-04-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-07 House Message received
• 2025-04-07 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 325)
• 2025-04-07 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-07 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-07 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-10 To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-09 To Governor 4/9/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-10 To Governor 4/9/2025 - House 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 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df2493ae-5d80-468c-80f0-848a0be3358e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).