republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-538.md

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Bill	Allowing certain entities to purchase qualifying tax-delinquent properties before they are offered at public auction	Allowing certain entities to purchase qualifying tax-delinquent properties before they are offered at public auction	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 538	West Virginia SB 538 (2025)	bill	Real and Personal Property	enacted	Helton	3	38	3	2025-02-19	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/90649930-321c-406a-88c3-580680995324	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=538&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	23a86c2d0e267a11ee9777832cfeccab8dcd15f4886eda83e531a1d1e327da92	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 538 (2025) — Allowing certain entities to purchase qualifying tax-delinquent properties before they are offered at public auction

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

Votes

• Passage — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 85–8 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 88–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Helton — primary (person)
• Fuller — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-19 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-19 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-14 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-03-17 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-17 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-18 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-19 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-19 Passed Senate (Roll No. 133) passage
• 2025-03-19 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-20 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-20 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-20 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 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. 379) passage
• 2025-04-04 House reconsidered effective date (Roll No. 383)
• 2025-04-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-07 House Message received
• 2025-04-07 Senate concurred in House changed effective date
• 2025-04-07 Effective from passage (Roll No. 324)
• 2025-04-07 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-03 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
• 2025-04-30 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 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90649930-321c-406a-88c3-580680995324. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).