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Votes at a glance: key bills the West Virginia Senate passed Feb. 19, 2026
Summary
A roundup of roll-call outcomes from the Feb. 19 West Virginia Senate floor session: disaster repair tax credit, budget, personal income tax reduction, contractor license transfer, and several education supplements were passed and sent to the House as applicable.
The West Virginia Senate recorded roll-call votes on several bills on Feb. 19, 2026. Key outcomes included:
- Disaster repair and recovery tax credit (Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 243): Passed 33 yays, 0 nays, 1 absent not voting. The credit authorizes a tax credit against severance and business privilege tax for private-sector disaster repair and recovery expenditures; annual certification cap of $5,000,000 and a per-occurrence cap of $500,000, and the Department of Environmental Protection must establish application and certification rules.
- Budget bill (Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 250): Passed 28 yays, 4 nays, 2 absent not voting. The budget appropriates $21,162,516,354 for FY ending 06/30/2027 and includes prefunding steps for the HOPE scholarship, full Medicaid funding claims, and a built-in 10% personal income tax reduction scenario that the House must still consider.
- Personal income tax reduction (Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 392): Passed 28 yays, 4 nays, 2 absent not voting. The bill reduces the personal income tax by 10%, effective Jan. 1, 2026, and raises vapor-product excise rates (closed cartridges and open systems) to generate roughly $22 million in offsetting revenue.
- Contractor license transfer (Engrossed Senate Bill 553): Passed 32 yays, 0 nays, 2 absent not voting. The bill allows licensed contractors to transfer their license to immediate family members (spouse, child, sibling, parent) under specified conditions.
- Multiple supplemental appropriations affecting the HOPE scholarship and other education accounts (including bills appearing as Senate Bills 814, 841, 871 and related measures): Passed on recorded votes and many were made effective from passage.
All measures that passed on the floor were communicated to the House for further action or implementation steps where indicated in the text. Where votes were recorded by tally only, individual member votes were not announced on the floor transcript.
