republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-643.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	Discontinuing WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program	Discontinuing WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2026	SB 643	West Virginia SB 643 (2026)	bill	Courts Elections	enacted	Charnock	3	35	2	2026-01-28	2026-06-25	openstates	ocd-bill/dfa10397-3e40-4595-98c8-b219402c333a	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=643&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	7d683100132893bb9f29d3e64aaa9a181046f4acbbc6ab76c0ff329bfd7e7eaa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 643 (2026) — Discontinuing WV Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Program

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 — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 85–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charnock — primary (person)
• Chapman — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Weld — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-28 Filed for introduction filing
• 2026-01-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2026-01-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-12 Committee substitute reported
• 2026-02-13 On 1st reading
• 2026-02-13 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-02-16 On 2nd reading
• 2026-02-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-17 On 3rd reading
• 2026-02-17 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-17 Passed Senate (Roll No. 103) passage
• 2026-02-17 Ordered to House
• 2026-02-18 House received Senate message
• 2026-02-18 Introduced in House introduction
• 2026-02-18 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-18 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-03-06 Markup Discussion
• 2026-03-10 Do pass
• 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
• 2026-03-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-03-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-13 Passed House (Roll No. 544) passage
• 2026-03-13 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-03-13 Completed legislative action
• 2026-03-14 House Message received
• 2026-03-18 To Governor 3/18/2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2026-03-25 Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2026-06-25 Chapter 133, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfa10397-3e40-4595-98c8-b219402c333a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).