republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2434.md

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Bill	Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act	Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2434	West Virginia HB 2434 (2025)	bill	Crime	enacted	Hornby	8	46	3	2025-02-17	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/28210495-ef37-426b-9d00-06a5bcc23d24	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2434&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	6e64a96f891b903c906f77295150eb899e42e1a36eb77658dcd2874286db5255	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2434 (2025) — Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act

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. hb2434 hfa flanigan 3-4 _1 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2434 hfa flanigan 3-4 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2434 hfat akers 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2434 s jud am _1 4-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hornby — primary (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Crouse — cosponsor (person)
• Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
• Holstein — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Maynor — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-17 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-17 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 To House Legal Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-28 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-03 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-04 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-04 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-04 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 29) passage
• 2025-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-06 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-06 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 To Judiciary 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
• 2025-04-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-08 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 361) passage
• 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. 485)
• 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. 529)
• 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
• 2025-04-12 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
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28210495-ef37-426b-9d00-06a5bcc23d24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).