republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-459.md

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Bill	Requiring county planning commission members be state residents	Requiring county planning commission members be state residents	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 459	West Virginia SB 459 (2025)	bill	Counties Economic Development	enacted	Thorne	4	39	3	2025-02-13	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/28ae8fcd-49fa-49a2-ae86-6d658cab1652	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=459&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	c48cd35dd3640325e5a6b11a6a266ed2b21d18cde490a85919b9b1d9e197fa17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 459 (2025) — Requiring county planning commission members be state residents

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. sb459 hfat phillips 4-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 88–1 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Thorne — primary (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Helton — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-13 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-13 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 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. 47) 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
• 2025-03-31 Do pass
• 2025-04-01 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-02 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-03 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Passed House (Roll No. 376) passage
• 2025-04-03 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-07 House Message received
• 2025-04-07 Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 323) passage
• 2025-04-07 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-07 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-07 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-09 To Governor 4/9/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-10 To Governor 4/9/2025 - 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 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28ae8fcd-49fa-49a2-ae86-6d658cab1652. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).