republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-3016.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Photo voter ID."
description: "Photo voter ID."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3016"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3016 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moore"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 45
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c83f320-c72f-43e3-a9ee-0ddc3b0799db"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3016&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "14410da54710163795b302756cf44d80d1d979b28cfddf1a733cf7d2b93b185f"
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 3016 (2025) — Photo voter ID.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3016%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3016)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3016%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3016)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3016%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3016)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3016%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3016)
5. **Motion to limit debate to 5 minutes adopted (Roll No. 593)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/house/00593.pdf)
6. **hb3016 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3016%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb3016 sfat stuart _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3016%20sfat%20stuart%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- LIMIT TO 5 MIN — **76–19** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **84–8** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **88–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Moore — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Smith, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-25** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed House (Roll No. 240) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 485) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** Motion to limit debate to 5 minutes adopted (Roll No. 593)
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 594)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 110, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c83f320-c72f-43e3-a9ee-0ddc3b0799db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).