republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-240.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	Updating crime of sexual extortion	Updating crime of sexual extortion	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 240	West Virginia SB 240 (2025)	bill	Crime	enacted	Hamilton	6	40	2	2025-02-12	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1b477d77-f951-4570-99d9-ad42e44f5e9c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=240&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1ae0699799c718518a3e1a0254e3d416cf1b374a29de2fae086fe2a6b54e48cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 240 (2025) — Updating crime of sexual extortion

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. sb240 hfa hornby 3-7 _1 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. sb240 hfa hornby 3-7 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb240 hfa hornby 3-7 _1adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hamilton — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-02-20 On 1st reading
• 2025-02-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-02-21 On 2nd reading
• 2025-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-02-24 On 3rd reading
• 2025-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-02-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 21) passage
• 2025-02-24 Ordered to House
• 2025-02-25 House received Senate message
• 2025-02-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-25 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-25 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-05 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
• 2025-03-07 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-07 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-10 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-10 Passed House (Roll No. 44) passage
• 2025-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-14 House Message received
• 2025-03-14 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 109)
• 2025-03-14 Communicated to House
• 2025-03-14 Completed legislative action
• 2025-03-17 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-18 To Governor 3/18/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 To Governor 3/18/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-03-26 To Governor 3/18/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor 3/25/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor 3/24/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 75, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b477d77-f951-4570-99d9-ad42e44f5e9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).