republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-137.md

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

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Bill	Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter	Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2026	SB 137	West Virginia SB 137 (2026)	bill	Crime	enacted	Deeds	5	40	3	2026-01-14	2026-06-25	openstates	ocd-bill/6e01a992-85bb-4e7f-840b-b6c68a95ce7c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=137&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2b25ec95374fd7b7ea0d6ca34d73f4472b2b3ce24504b96e7806c078e9c83e28	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 137 (2026) — Modifying parole eligibility for crime of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter

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. sb137 h jud am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. sb137 hfat akers 3-6 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 30–2 (pass) · upper
• HFA FLANIGAN & MASTERS 3-5 #1 — 45–47 (fail) · lower
• PASSAGE — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-14 Filed for introduction filing
• 2026-01-14 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2026-01-14 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-20 Committee substitute reported
• 2026-01-21 On 1st reading
• 2026-01-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-01-22 On 2nd reading
• 2026-01-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-01-23 On 3rd reading
• 2026-01-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-01-23 Passed Senate (Roll No. 7) passage
• 2026-01-23 Ordered to House
• 2026-01-27 House received Senate message
• 2026-01-27 Introduced in House introduction
• 2026-01-27 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-27 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-03-02 Markup Discussion
• 2026-03-04 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2026-03-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-06 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2026-03-06 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 360) amendment-failure
• 2026-03-06 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2026-03-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-09 Passed House (Roll No. 361) passage
• 2026-03-09 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2026-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-03-11 House Message received
• 2026-03-11 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 420)
• 2026-03-11 Communicated to House
• 2026-03-11 Completed legislative action
• 2026-03-12 To Governor 3/12/2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-01 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2026-06-25 Chapter 98, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e01a992-85bb-4e7f-840b-b6c68a95ce7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).