republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-427.md

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Bill	Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit	Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 427	West Virginia SB 427 (2025)	bill	Labor	enacted	Phillips	4	39	2	2025-02-13	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/0c1be41b-3ad1-4cd0-80a9-26517ab3701d	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=427&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1abb38205709c901f83e38d008881ae6ce47f8526586683596b627afbd13301f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 427 (2025) — Permitting certain teenagers to work without obtaining work permit

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. sb427 sub h go am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 91–9 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Phillips — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-13 To Workforce
• 2025-02-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-13 To Workforce
• 2025-02-25 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-02-26 On 1st reading
• 2025-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-02-27 On 2nd reading
• 2025-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-02-28 On 3rd reading
• 2025-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-02-28 Passed Senate (Roll No. 46) passage
• 2025-02-28 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-03 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-03 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-03 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-09 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-10 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-10 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Passed House (Roll No. 504) passage
• 2025-04-11 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 2025-04-12 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 575)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-21 To Governor 4/21/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c1be41b-3ad1-4cd0-80a9-26517ab3701d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).