republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2222.md

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Bill	Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules.	Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2222	West Virginia HB 2222 (2025)	bill	Legislature--Rule Making	enacted	Smith, D.	4	37	3	2025-02-12	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/d1b84f4d-b2a1-4832-986c-0178090e7cff	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2222&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	43d657982cd47bec74d1d7a5cbd4b09c9adf503d975d04b409b07f302e8e119b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2222 (2025) — Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules.

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

Votes

• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smith, D. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-12 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-26 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-02-27 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-02-28 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-03 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-03 Passed House (Roll No. 20) passage
• 2025-03-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-04 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-04 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-14 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-17 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-18 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-18 Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) passage
• 2025-03-18 Effective from passage (Roll No. 127)
• 2025-03-18 Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
• 2025-03-19 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-19 Effective from passage (Roll No. 109)
• 2025-03-19 Completed legislative action
• 2025-03-20 House Message received
• 2025-03-20 To Governor 3/20/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20 To Governor 3/20/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1b84f4d-b2a1-4832-986c-0178090e7cff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).