republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-837.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	Eliminating WV Office of Equal Opportunity	Eliminating WV Office of Equal Opportunity	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 837	West Virginia SB 837 (2025)	bill	Finance and Administration	enacted	Rucker	4	41	2	2025-03-20	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6ca597b8-d40d-46d2-9b2c-b85d5f329081	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=837&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1c44745dac1528b0269bb07b3cc4c443db3012fc2710aa54e6c63fa10809b39a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 837 (2025) — Eliminating WV Office of Equal Opportunity

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. sb837 h go am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
4. sb837 hfat phillips 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 90–9 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 29–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-20 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-20 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-27 Immediate consideration
• 2025-03-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-28 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-29 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-29 Passed Senate (Roll No. 237) passage
• 2025-03-29 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-31 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-31 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-31 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-09 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-10 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-10 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Motion to table the motion to postpone indefinitely rejected
• 2025-04-11 Passed House (Roll No. 524) passage
• 2025-04-11 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 2025-04-12 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 555)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-21 To Governor 4/21/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-25 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 130, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ca597b8-d40d-46d2-9b2c-b85d5f329081. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).