republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-257.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	Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property	Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 257	West Virginia SB 257 (2025)	bill	Actions Suits and Liens Real and Personal Property	enacted	Grady	3	40	2	2025-02-12	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=257&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	ec78a3fa610a91dbfc3fe3ca18a5d5d0c2ab7356e18396265af80ce183da414c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 257 (2025) — Providing protection for property owner when someone visiting private cemetery causes damage to property

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
3. sb257 h jud am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grady — primary (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
• 2025-03-06 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-07 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-10 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-11 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-11 Passed Senate (Roll No. 90) passage
• 2025-03-11 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-12 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-12 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Markup Discussion
• 2025-04-03 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-04 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Passed House (Roll No. 415) passage
• 2025-04-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-09 House Message received
• 2025-04-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 417)
• 2025-04-09 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-09 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-14 To Governor 4/14/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-24 Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 45, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0c57368-7b30-45fc-8b97-72f9d3db46d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).