republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-617.md

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Bill	Discouraging gang activity	Discouraging gang activity	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 617	West Virginia SB 617 (2025)	bill	Public Safety	enacted	Roberts	5	44	2	2025-02-27	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b9ef8ff1-0f50-42c6-8fc2-a06cd39a21f8	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=617&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	26d0b1414c03a157410e0c2fc7cbb89e8385eb51b920df57f08bd647ca8c3468	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 617 (2025) — Discouraging gang activity

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. sb617 hfa akers 4-9 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. sb617 hfat akers 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 88–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Roberts — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Barrett — cosponsor (person)
• Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Fuller — cosponsor (person)
• Hart — cosponsor (person)
• Helton — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Thorne — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-27 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-27 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-03-24 Immediate consideration
• 2025-03-24 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-25 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-26 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-26 Passed Senate (Roll No. 184) passage
• 2025-03-26 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-26 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-26 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Markup Discussion
• 2025-04-03 Do pass
• 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
• 2025-04-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-08 Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/9/2025
• 2025-04-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-09 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-09 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-09 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Passed House (Roll No. 433) passage
• 2025-04-09 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-10 House Message received
• 2025-04-10 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 452)
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-10 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
• 2025-04-24 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 207, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9ef8ff1-0f50-42c6-8fc2-a06cd39a21f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).