republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2871.md

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

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 the crime of negligent homicide	Relating to the crime of negligent homicide	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2871	West Virginia HB 2871 (2025)	bill	Crime	enacted	Funkhouser	8	46	3	2025-02-24	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/14967ae7-51d9-4874-b3f8-4a46bf9195e1	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2871&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3864fc3524af6b4dff45efce5e0b9ac545e41faeef9236db8f539c35792517bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2871 (2025) — Relating to the crime of negligent homicide

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2871 hfat mcgeehan 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2871 s jud am _1 4-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2871 sfat stuart _1 4-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Funkhouser — primary (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
• Holstein — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Kump — cosponsor (person)
• Mallow — cosponsor (person)
• Masters — cosponsor (person)
• Roop — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-24 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-24 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 To House Courts referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Markup Discussion
• 2025-02-28 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-05 By substitute for substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-10 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-10 Passed House (Roll No. 48) passage
• 2025-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-11 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-11 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 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. 370) passage
• 2025-04-08 Title amendment adopted
• 2025-04-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-10 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-10 House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 454)
• 2025-04-10 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 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. 530)
• 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
• 2025-04-25 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
• 2025-07-30 Chapter 79, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14967ae7-51d9-4874-b3f8-4a46bf9195e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).