republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-738.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	Terminating Employee Suggestion Award Board	Terminating Employee Suggestion Award Board	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 738	West Virginia SB 738 (2025)	bill	Finance and Administration	enacted	Rucker	2	36	2	2025-03-11	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1a626ac4-69e1-4a53-9a1c-b7c239222c91	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=738&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3a5c161e2678d8caaaa58df5e69c08e03eaf06dd553bb81428cb3776878bfbc6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 738 (2025) — Terminating Employee Suggestion Award Board

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 — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-11 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-11 To Government Organization 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 Laid over on 2nd reading 3/18/2025
• 2025-03-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-20 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-20 Passed Senate (Roll No. 144) passage
• 2025-03-20 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-21 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-21 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-24 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Do pass
• 2025-04-08 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-09 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Passed House (Roll No. 465) passage
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-10 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-11 House Message received
• 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 129, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a626ac4-69e1-4a53-9a1c-b7c239222c91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).