republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-844.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	Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes	Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 844	West Virginia SB 844 (2025)	bill	Agriculture	enacted	Rucker	3	35	2	2025-03-20	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/0e982a54-4c01-4326-85a4-6a0a6973ee03	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=844&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	b865e11a59b03753f24b152d8aef4e4c7bca2d7d45d8260784516f50b8d217c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 844 (2025) — Exempting non-native quail and partridge from game farm requirement if owned for agricultural purposes

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 — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 86–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rucker — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Hart — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-20 To Agriculture referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-20 To Agriculture referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-03-26 Immediate consideration
• 2025-03-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-27 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-28 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-28 Passed Senate (Roll No. 213) passage
• 2025-03-28 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
• 2025-04-07 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. 467) 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
• 2025-04-25 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 10, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e982a54-4c01-4326-85a4-6a0a6973ee03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).