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type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing that 18 is the age of consent and removing the ability of an underage person to obtaining a consent to marry through their parents, legal guardians, or by petition to the circuit court"
description: "Establishing that 18 is the age of consent and removing the ability of an underage person to obtaining a consent to marry through their parents, legal guardians, or by petition to the circuit court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3018"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3018 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dac4659-26db-462e-8e88-f3e6589ebc5f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3018&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0283a5987cce63152d336d6963d0e1c96e3a2d3035e9e6af67b5a8e7676e28e0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---
# West Virginia HB 3018 (2023) — Establishing that 18 is the age of consent and removing the ability of an underage person to obtaining a consent to marry through their parents, legal guardians, or by petition to the circuit court
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3018%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3018)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3018%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3018)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3018%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3018)
4. **hb3018 sfa trump _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3018 sfa trump _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
5. **hb3018 sfat trump _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3018 sfat trump _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **311** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Young — primary (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-27** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-28** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-28** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 375) `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading to Judiciary
- **2023-03-09** Move to discharge the Judiciary committee from consideration adopted
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
- **2023-03-10** Deferred until foot of 2nd reading
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 562) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted
- **2023-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 768)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** To Governor 3/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 114, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4dac4659-26db-462e-8e88-f3e6589ebc5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).