republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2761.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 generally to magistrate courts	Relating generally to magistrate courts	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2761	West Virginia HB 2761 (2025)	bill	Courts Magistrates	enacted	Akers	5	40	2	2025-02-21	2025-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/88b43c15-d05f-492f-89cf-c60c83a2406e	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2761&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	465892b7b5594a02fbf8f76eb73e082e8b72268a787402fcf1d0dc2884249a69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2761 (2025) — Relating generally to magistrate courts

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. hb2761 hfat akers 3-11 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 79–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Akers — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Cannon, D. — cosponsor (person)
• Criss — cosponsor (person)
• Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
• Maynor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-21 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-04 To House Courts referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-07 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-10 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-11 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-11 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-03-12 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-12 Passed House (Roll No. 69) passage
• 2025-03-12 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Reported do pass 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
• 2025-04-08 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 366) passage
• 2025-04-08 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-08 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-09 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-14 To Governor 4/14/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-14 To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/14/2025 - 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
• 2025-07-22 Chapter 71, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88b43c15-d05f-492f-89cf-c60c83a2406e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).