republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-621.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	Authorizing digital court records	Authorizing digital court records	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 621	West Virginia SB 621 (2025)	bill	Courts	enacted	Willis	2	32	2	2025-02-27	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c5988d70-f937-4a17-9cdc-721478dfd03c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=621&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	18efdd341407f7d3916e1efd41030aeae214c729a9776a36c725af35207a3ddc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 621 (2025) — Authorizing digital court records

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

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Willis — primary (person)
• Thorne — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — 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
• 2025-03-14 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 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. 136) passage
• 2025-03-19 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-20 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-20 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-20 Reference dispensed
• 2025-03-20 Immediate consideration
• 2025-03-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-22 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-22 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-24 Passed House (Roll No. 164) passage
• 2025-03-24 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-24 Completed legislative action
• 2025-03-25 House Message received
• 2025-03-26 To Governor 3/26/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-26 To Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-01 Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 70, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5988d70-f937-4a17-9cdc-721478dfd03c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).