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Votes at a Glance: Key Senate Floor Actions and Recorded Results, April 8, 2025
Summary
The West Virginia Senate took unanimous and recorded roll-call votes on several bills, concurred in House amendments on a number of measures, and advanced many bills to third reading. This summary lists bills with recorded vote results and other floor actions from the session.
During the April 8, 2025 floor session, the West Virginia Senate considered multiple messages from the House, concurred in amendments, and held recorded votes on several measures. Below are the principal floor actions with the outcomes recorded on the Senate floor transcript.
Votes and motions recorded on the floor:
- Senate Bill 257 (property protection when a visitor damages a private cemetery): Senate concurred in House amendments and passed the bill on a recorded vote, 30 yays, 0 nays, 4 absent, not voting.
- Senate Bill 270 (declaring sale/manufacture of firearms essential business during declared emergency, as amended to add firearms safety training organizations): Senate concurred and passed the bill, 31 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent, not voting.
- Committee substitute for Senate Bill 464 (creating license plate for recipients of [sic] Medal of Valor recipients; House amendment extending privilege to surviving spouses): Senate concurred and passed, 31 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent, not voting.
- Senate Bill 537 (establishing West Virginia Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Support Program): Senate concurred in House amendments and passed, 33 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent, not voting.
- Senate Bill 627 (leasing state-owned pore spaces underlying state parks for CO2 injection; house amendments adding buffer and earmarking proceeds for DNR): Senate concurred in the House amendments and passed, 26 yays, 5 nays, 3 absent, not voting.
- House Bill 23-97 (prevent immediate family members from acting in a fiduciary capacity for the same governmental authority; House amended senate amendment): The Senate concurred and passed, 31 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent, not voting.
Other floor actions and procedural outcomes:
- Numerous bills were read for first or second reading and advanced to third reading without recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript segment provided. For those items the transcript records either unanimous consent or “Bill will be advanced to third reading” (vote counts not specified). Examples include House Bills 24-79 (county authority management), 24-91 (online raffle conditions), 25-28 (Christian school sports participation), 25-95 (Nonprofit Athletics Act), 27-42 (water/sewer certificate waiver), and many others listed on the calendar.
- Multiple committee reports were received and bills were referred or re-referred to committees as the Senate processed its calendar; those actions are recorded in the transcript without roll-call tallies.
This summary covers recorded floor results and procedural advancements that appear in the session transcript. Where a formal roll-call tally was not recorded in the transcript excerpt, the item is noted as advanced or received without a specified vote count.
