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SB 50 WV
Became Law

Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections

WV · session 2025 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Feb 12, 2025

Latest action (Aug 8, 2025) Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2025

Sponsor (1)

  • Taylor Republican · primary
5 coauthors / cosponsors
  • Deeds Republican · cosponsor
  • Oliverio Republican · cosponsor
  • Willis · cosponsor
  • Hamilton · cosponsor
  • Rucker Republican · cosponsor

Action history (44)

  1. Feb 12, 2025 Filed for introduction · upper
  2. Feb 12, 2025 To Judiciary · upper
  3. Feb 12, 2025 Introduced in Senate · upper
  4. Feb 12, 2025 To Judiciary · upper
  5. Feb 25, 2025 Committee substitute reported · upper
  6. Feb 26, 2025 On 1st reading · upper
  7. Feb 26, 2025 Read 1st time · upper
  8. Feb 27, 2025 On 2nd reading · upper
  9. Feb 27, 2025 Laid over on 2nd reading 2/27/2025 · upper
  10. Feb 28, 2025 Read 2nd time · upper
  11. Feb 28, 2025 Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote) · upper
  12. Mar 3, 2025 On 3rd reading · upper
  13. Mar 3, 2025 Read 3rd time · upper
  14. Mar 3, 2025 Passed Senate (Roll No. 49) · upper
  15. Mar 3, 2025 Ordered to House · upper
  16. Mar 4, 2025 House received Senate message · lower
  17. Mar 4, 2025 Introduced in House · lower
  18. Mar 4, 2025 To Judiciary · lower
  19. Mar 4, 2025 To House Judiciary · lower
  20. Mar 31, 2025 Markup Discussion · lower
  21. Apr 2, 2025 Do pass · lower
  22. Apr 3, 2025 On 1st reading, Special Calendar · lower
  23. Apr 3, 2025 Read 1st time · lower
  24. Apr 4, 2025 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar · lower
  25. Apr 4, 2025 Read 2nd time · lower
  26. Apr 4, 2025 Amendment reported by the Clerk · lower
  27. Apr 4, 2025 Amendment adopted (Voice vote) · lower
  28. Apr 7, 2025 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar · lower
  29. Apr 7, 2025 Read 3rd time · lower
  30. Apr 7, 2025 Passed House (Roll No. 400) · lower
  31. Apr 7, 2025 Communicated to Senate · lower
  32. Apr 8, 2025 House Message received · upper
  33. Apr 8, 2025 Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote) · upper
  34. Apr 8, 2025 Communicated to House · upper
  35. Apr 12, 2025 House received Senate message · lower
  36. Apr 12, 2025 House receded and passed (Roll No. 614) · lower
  37. Apr 12, 2025 Communicated to Senate · lower
  38. Apr 12, 2025 Completed legislative action · lower
  39. Apr 12, 2025 House Message received · upper
  40. Apr 17, 2025 To Governor 4/17/2025 · upper
  41. Apr 12, 2025 To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate Journal · upper
  42. Apr 24, 2025 Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 · upper
  43. Apr 12, 2025 Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal · upper
  44. Aug 8, 2025 Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 · upper
Subjects
Elections

Text versions (14)

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

  • Enrolled Committee Substitute · HTML
  • Enrolled Committee Substitute · PDF
  • Enrolled Committee Substitute · application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • Engrossed Committee Substitute · HTML
  • Engrossed Committee Substitute · PDF
  • Engrossed Committee Substitute · application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • Committee Substitute · HTML
  • Committee Substitute · PDF
  • Committee Substitute · application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • Introduced Version · HTML
  • Introduced Version · PDF
  • Introduced Version · application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • sb50 hfa chiarelli 3-30 _1 adopted.htm · HTML
  • sb50 sfa weld _1 2-28 adopted.htm · HTML

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