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Votes at a glance: key Senate actions March 31, 2025
Summary
Roll-call and voice votes on a range of bills and resolutions in the West Virginia Senate on March 31, 2025; list includes bills that passed, referrals and title amendments.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate recorded votes and formal actions on numerous bills and resolutions during its March 31 floor session. The items below reflect the outcomes as announced on the floor and recorded in the session transcript.
Votes and actions (selected items recorded on the Senate floor):
- Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 67 (motor vehicle racing permits): Passed on third reading; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Bill restricting mailed abortifacients (bill text read on the floor): Passed on a roll call recorded as 28 yays, 5 nays, 1 absent; title amendment adopted; clerk transmitted action to the House.
- Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 158 (modifying eligibility for state Board of Education members): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 553 (amend traffic code re: speeding abstracts on controlled-access highways): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent (clerk announcement).
- Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act (bill creating safety committee and private grant program): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Securities/fees bill (notice filing and fee changes for securities commission): Floor announcement of result contains an unclear transcript of machine counts; the clerk declared the bill passed; precise tally in the transcript is not specified.
- Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 701 (forestry equipment property classification): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent. Later, the Senate approved making the bill effective 07/01/2025 by a recorded vote of 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 745 (strengthening lobbying requirements): Motion to refer to Rules Committee passed (roll-call recorded as 22 yeas, 11 nays, 1 absent); bill referred to Rules.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 828 (corrections vendors included in criminal provisions): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 848 (bank protections for eligible adults against financial exploitation): Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent.
- Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 875 (private-label beer brands for a single on-premises licensee, limited production): Passed; recorded as 20 yays, 13 nays, 1 absent; title amendment adopted.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 911 (adjunct teaching permits): Passed (clerk declared passage; exact roll-call not specified in floor transcript excerpt).
- Senate Bill 939 (testing schedule for medication-assisted-treatment programs): Passed; recorded as 34 yays, 0 nays, 0 absent.
- Senate Bill 940 (Water Pollution Control Act amendments): Passed; recorded as 32 yays, 2 nays, 0 absent.
- Bill authorizing UAV use to track mortally wounded game: Passed; recorded as 33 yays, 1 nay, 0 absent.
Several other bills were advanced, engrossed or placed on second reading during the session; where the transcript did not print a full roll-call in the excerpt, the floor announcement indicated advancement or adoption (see transcript for exact language). For bills with unclear or incomplete machine-count text in the transcript, this summary lists the outcome as declared on the floor and notes where the tally was not specified in the transcript.
Notes: This roundup summarizes floor actions recorded in the Senate transcript for March 31, 2025. For bill texts, complete vote records or any House action, consult the official bill files and the House journal.
