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Votes at a glance: key Senate actions March 14, 2025
Summary
The West Virginia Senate dealt with a series of concurrence motions, resolution adoptions and bill passages on March 14, 2025. This roundup lists major bills acted on the floor, their outcomes and the vote tallies recorded on the transcript.
The West Virginia Senate took a series of formal actions on March 14, 2025. Below are the key floor votes recorded in the session and their outcomes.
- Senate concurred with House amendments to Senate Bill 138 (enhancing penalties for fleeing an officer). Passage recorded: 31 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent; outcome: concurred and bill passed.
- Senate concurred with House amendments to Senate Bill 240 (extortion-related revisions). Passage recorded: 31 yays, 0 nays, 3 absent; outcome: concurred and bill passed.
- Senate concurred with House amendments to Senate Bill 291. Outcome on the floor: concurred and the bill passed; the transcript does not list the machine tally for the final passage on the record (not specified).
- Committee substitute for House Bill 2354 (banning certain products from food) passed the Senate. Recorded machine result: 26 yeas, 4 nays, 4 absent; the Senate also voted to make the bill effective from passage by the same recorded tally and declared it effective from passage.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 592 (above ground storage tanks) passed third reading after debate. Recorded: 25 yeas, 7 nays, 2 absent; outcome: passed.
- Engrossed Senate Bill 712 (retirement provisions managed by CPRB) passed third reading. Recorded: 31 yays, 0 nays, 2 absent; outcome: passed.
- Senate Bill 715 (exempting retirement system personal records from FOIA) passed. Recorded: 32 yays, 0 nays, 2 absent; outcome: passed.
- Senate Bill 716 (failure to pay required contributions following transfers between retirement systems) passed. Recorded: 31 yays, 0 nays, 2 absent, 1 excused; outcome: passed.
- Engrossed committee substitute for House Bill 2042 (allowing a guardian ad litem to request appointment of a court-appointed special advocate) passed. Recorded: 32 yays, 0 nays, 2 absent; outcome: passed.
Procedural notes: some committee reports, first readings and references to secondary committee review were announced but did not include floor votes. Where the transcript does not provide a machine tally for a specific action, the entry is marked "not specified." All recorded tallies above are verbatim from the session transcript.
Actions listed here were recorded by the Senate clerk and the presiding officer and reflected on the Senate floor during the March 14 session.
