Votes at a glance: key Senate floor actions, April 8, 2025

The following is a consolidated list of bills, resolutions and final floor actions taken by the West Virginia Senate on April 8, 2025, with the outcome and the key detail provided on the floor. Where the transcript did not record a mover or full roll-call names, only the final tally is given.

Votes at a glance

- Senate Resolution 47 (recognition): Adopted (voice vote; adoption declared by the chair). - Senate Resolution 48 (designating April 9, 2025 as Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention Day): Adopted; machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - House Concurrent Resolution 96 (urging West Virginia's congressional delegation to oppose federal cuts to school and childcare nutrition): Adopted (voice vote; adoption declared). - Engrossed Senate Bill 937 (supplementing appropriations to Department of Economic Development): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed Senate Bill 300 (committee substitute budget reference noted earlier on calendar): Referred/advanced per calendar action (committee reference dispensed where noted). (Details not read on floor at final passage in this segment.) - Engrossed Senate Bill 937 supplemental appropriation: Adopted (34-0; clerk communicated to the House). - Engrossed House Bill 2002 (one-stop shop permitting process; dashboard under the Department of Administration): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; bill to be fully implemented by 01/01/2027 (as stated on floor). - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 2003 (prohibiting personal electronic device use by students during instructional time): Passed, machine vote 33 yeas, 1 nay; counties required to adopt board policy and document violations in WVSIS (floor summary provided). - Engrossed House Bill 2011 (supplemental appropriation to Department of Human Services, medical services appropriation - provider tax Medicaid state share fund): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Committee substitute for House Bill 2026 (budget bill): Amendment adopted; final passage 34 yeas, 0 nays (Senate moved to make effective from passage and recorded two-thirds vote where required). - Engrossed House Bill 2152 (Prompt Payment Act of 2025): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; requires agencies to pay vendors within 45 days and creates reporting requirements to the state auditor. - Engrossed House Bill 2165 (allowing disabled Purple Heart recipients to park free at municipal metered parking spaces; amended): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; title amendment adopted. - Engrossed House Bill 2444 (limited financial records of limited video lottery permittees): Passed, machine vote 24 yeas, 10 nays. - Engrossed House Bill 2484 (clarifying probationary period for paid municipal firefighters): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed House Bill 2776 (reporting positive alpha-gal test to CDC): Held over/retained on calendar by request. - Engrossed House Bill 2797 (expanding professionals who may diagnose PTSD for workers' compensation): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; removed sunset clause (floor summary provided). - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 2866 (municipal fire service fees; intergovernmental agreement/protest procedure): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; amendment adopted concerning intergov agreements and protest procedure. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 2889 (fairness hearing exemption to Uniform Securities Act registration): Passed, machine vote 33 yeas, 1 nay. - Engrossed House Bill 2943 (extension of certification fee for Hazardous Waste Management Act): Passed, machine vote 33 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 2960 (pilot program allowing Division of Highways to contract snow removal on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 2964 (amending residency requirements for regional airport boards): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed House Bill 3012 (lottery money distribution clarification for Hancock County municipalities): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed House Bill 3017 (compliance audits of tabulating equipment; requirement to ensure not connected to Internet): Rejected on final passage, machine vote 16 yeas, 18 nays (less than majority). - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 3152 (claims bill directing payment of specified moral obligations): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; total listed $1,501,967 on the floor. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 3166 (school safety mapping data requirements, FOIA exemption, $4,500 per school funding subject to available funds): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; title amendment adopted. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 3279 (requirements for governing boards of WVU and WV State University): Passed, machine vote 19 yeas, 15 nays; later made effective from passage (two-thirds vote recorded 31 yeas, 3 nays). - Engrossed Bill 3342 (Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 3350 (supplemental appropriation corrections): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays. - Engrossed House Bill 3361 (supplemental appropriation for Birth-to-3 program): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays (floor had chair rule question re: conflict-of-interest; chair ruled member of a class and required to vote). - Engrossed House Bill 3429 (prequalifying consultants for DEP abandoned mine lands): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; bill creates a preapproval process for engineering services. - Engrossed House Bill 3456 (transfer of Stevens Correctional Center to Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation): Passed, machine vote 34 yeas, 0 nays; employees and benefits to transfer from McDowell County to state.

Notes on procedure and context - Where vote tallies are given above, they are taken from the machine results recorded on the floor and announced by the clerk. If the transcript records only a voice adoption, the outcome is noted as such. - Several bills were accompanied by committee strike-and-insert amendments adopted on the floor; the summary line lists the final, amended subject as read on the floor.