republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2491.md

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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	Relating to conditions on holding online raffles	Relating to conditions on holding online raffles	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2491	West Virginia HB 2491 (2025)	bill	Legal Gaming	enacted	Crouse	4	34	2	2025-02-17	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6d599e4a-3aa1-4eea-9c6e-fba0850e137b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2491&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	0b3c027671813f618d506fcc976ae55401217dabb701a9ca7ab6f1f6a17a0993	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2491 (2025) — Relating to conditions on holding online raffles

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 — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 93–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Crouse — primary (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle — cosponsor (person)
• Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Smith, D. — cosponsor (person)
• Street — 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
• 2025-02-19 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-27 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-28 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-31 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-31 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-01 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-01 Passed House (Roll No. 311) passage
• 2025-04-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-03 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-03 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 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. 430) passage
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-10 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-21 To Governor 4/21/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d599e4a-3aa1-4eea-9c6e-fba0850e137b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).