republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2479.md

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Bill	Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board	Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2479	West Virginia HB 2479 (2025)	bill	Counties	enacted	Maynor	4	41	3	2025-02-17	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/a1a0bb33-1fac-4c92-8141-ffe776a7c673	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2479&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	c4b03aba3f6ddcda3d4d28e25ea966ba1a5113eb25b4ea08b161f0e7e1ad35b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2479 (2025) — Relating to Management and control of county authority vested in board

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb2479 sfat rucker _1 4-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maynor — primary (person)
• Browning — cosponsor (person)
• Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
• Holstein — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Petitto — cosponsor (person)
• Roop — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-17 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Do pass, but first to Energy and Public Works
• 2025-02-26 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-18 Do pass
• 2025-03-19 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-19 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-20 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-21 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-21 Passed House (Roll No. 134) passage
• 2025-03-21 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-24 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-24 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-08 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-09 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 429) passage
• 2025-04-10 Title amendment adopted
• 2025-04-10 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. 592)
• 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
• 2025-04-25 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 67, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1a0bb33-1fac-4c92-8141-ffe776a7c673. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).