republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-54.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	Establishing criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults	Establishing criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2026	SB 54	West Virginia SB 54 (2026)	bill	Crime	enacted	Rucker	5	40	2	2026-01-14	2026-06-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2ae03945-5b70-4e57-929a-c070016b595b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=54&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	62a1493e94f70dae6f0f85c88654c2991655bbd39e09692279b5e6ea00b1720c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 54 (2026) — Establishing criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults

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. sb54 h jud am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. sb54 hfat akers 3-13 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rucker — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (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
• 2026-02-20 Committee substitute reported
• 2026-02-21 On 1st reading
• 2026-02-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-02-23 On 2nd reading
• 2026-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-24 On 3rd reading
• 2026-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 208) passage
• 2026-02-24 Ordered to House
• 2026-02-25 House received Senate message
• 2026-02-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2026-02-25 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-25 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-03-09 Markup Discussion
• 2026-03-10 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2026-03-11 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-11 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-03-12 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-12 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2026-03-12 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2026-03-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-13 Passed House (Roll No. 513) passage
• 2026-03-13 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2026-03-13 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-03-14 House Message received
• 2026-03-14 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 653)
• 2026-03-14 Communicated to House
• 2026-03-14 Completed legislative action
• 2026-03-19 To Governor 3/19/2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 To Governor 3/19/2026 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2026-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2026-06-25 Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ae03945-5b70-4e57-929a-c070016b595b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).