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Votes at a glance: Senate passes bills on AI‑generated child sexual content, recovery residence rules, gang activity and education changes
Summary
The West Virginia Senate recorded final passage on multiple bills April 9, including measures criminalizing AI‑generated child sexual content (SB198), rules for recovery residences (SB325), a measure discouraging gang activity (SB617), and changes to graduation requirements (HB2411). Vote tallies and motions are listed.
The West Virginia Senate on April 9 recorded final passage of several bills and concurred in House amendments on others. Key recorded outcomes (motions to concur or passage) announced by the Clerk and moved on the floor by the Senator from Lewis included:
- Senate Bill 198 (committee substitute, prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child sexual content): Senate concurred in House amendments and, upon final passage, the clerk announced 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent (motion declared passed).
- Senate Bill 325 (amended committee substitute authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules, including changes affecting recovery residences and foster family vaccination proof): The Senate amended the House amendment and concurred; final passage was recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent. The Senate also voted to make the bill effective from passage by a recorded vote of 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent (the presiding officer said more than two‑thirds of those elected had voted in the affirmative).
- Senate Bill 617 (discouraging gang activity; House altered the definition of gang): The Senate concurred in the House amendment and the clerk reported 33 ayes, 0 nays, 1 absent; the Senate declared the bill passed.
- House Bill 2411 (changes to graduation requirements and academic content standards, including removal of computer science as a science credit option): The Senate amended the title and concurred in the House amendment; the clerk reported 31 yeas, 2 nays, 1 absent and declared the bill passed.
- House Bill 2123 / House Bill 21-23 (modifying criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian, or custodian for child abuse): The Senate concurred with a title amendment; the clerk reported 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent and declared the bill passed.
Other committee reports were received and multiple bills were advanced to third reading; where the transcript recorded only committee referral or advancement, no final passage vote was captured in the provided excerpt.
Motions on the floor to concur in House amendments and to adopt title amendments were typically moved by the Senator from Lewis; where recorded vote tallies were announced by the clerk, those tallies are listed above.
