republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-486.md

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Bill	Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections	Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 486	West Virginia SB 486 (2025)	bill	Elections	enacted	Woodrum	5	41	2	2025-02-14	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/83a0c13f-7fd1-470e-932c-27ec22f817b9	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=486&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	b513eb4b3416ceb68a9392562f21fb636fce62d524e668ca3efe216b6e20eb84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 486 (2025) — Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections

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. sb486 hfat akers 3-12 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. sb486 hjud am. _1 3-12 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Woodrum — primary (person)
• Oliverio — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-14 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-14 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-02-28 On 1st reading
• 2025-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-03 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-04 Passed Senate (Roll No. 57) passage
• 2025-03-04 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-05 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-05 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-13 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-14 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-17 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-17 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-17 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-03-17 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-18 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-18 Passed House (Roll No. 106) passage
• 2025-03-18 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-18 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-19 House Message received
• 2025-03-19 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 129)
• 2025-03-19 Communicated to House
• 2025-03-19 Completed legislative action
• 2025-03-20 To Governor 3/20/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-21 To Governor 3/20/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 104, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83a0c13f-7fd1-470e-932c-27ec22f817b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).