republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-537.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	Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program	Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 537	West Virginia SB 537 (2025)	bill	Health	enacted	Helton	3	40	2	2025-02-19	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1c0a84d3-dd6c-428d-b23b-1b5adebd8223	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=537&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	824fe9911c1bd1494b5be22fe7cdba73fc1cad4546608a96d87077e31d34cfb6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 537 (2025) — Establishing WV Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program

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. sb537 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Helton — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Fuller — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-19 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-19 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-27 On 1st reading
• 2025-02-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-02-28 On 2nd reading
• 2025-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-03 Passed Senate (Roll No. 56) passage
• 2025-03-03 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-04 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-04 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-04 To Health and Human Resources then Finance referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Markup Discussion
• 2025-04-03 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-03 Reference dispensed
• 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. 418) 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. 420)
• 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
• 2025-04-30 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 203, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c0a84d3-dd6c-428d-b23b-1b5adebd8223. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).