republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2066.md

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

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	Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment.	Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2066	West Virginia HB 2066 (2025)	bill	Crime Public Safety	enacted	Akers	7	43	3	2025-02-12	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2066&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	18b4770a22d34b6bd10d37cd6673e4ab77964369e723a9d3bf7529fe484e7dd4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2066 (2025) — Creating a crime for the destruction of first responder equipment.

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. hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2066 hfa drennan and akers 2-23 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2066 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 93–4 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Akers — primary (person)
• Drennan — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Howell, T. — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle — cosponsor (person)
• Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
• Smith, D. — 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
• 2025-02-12 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 To House Courts referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-20 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-02-21 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
• 2025-02-24 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-02-24 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-02-25 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-02-25 Passed House (Roll No. 10) passage
• 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
• 2025-04-09 Reported do pass, with amendment committee-passage
• 2025-04-09 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-10 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) passage
• 2025-04-11 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-12 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-12 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 572)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 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
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-29 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chapter 76, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c9c67e1-ff78-4557-b179-5eb2d0cd006e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).