Bill Status - 2025 Regular Session
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There are 102 bill(s) regarding Elections
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 13 | Establishing residency requirements for candidates seeking nomination and election to US Congress | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 50 | Requiring municipal elections to be held on same day as statewide elections | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 11, 2025) | ||
| SB 112 | Prohibiting acceptance of illegal ballots cast in any election | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 125 | Clarifying when magistrate vacancies shall be filled | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 133 | Prohibiting ranked choice voting in elections | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 137 | Requiring political action committee to disclose contributors' names and addresses to Secretary of State | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 139 | Relating to filling of vacancies in Legislature | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| SB 178 | Imposing limit of three terms on elected public officials in state | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 210 | Defining protections for election officials and election workers | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 226 | Prohibiting ranked choice voting in any election held in WV | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 235 | Authorizing DMV to provide images of certain individuals to Secretary of State for voter identification | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 260 | Clarifying residency requirements for voter registration | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| SB 425 | Relating to partisan judge and magistrate elections | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| SB 440 | Requiring each judicial candidate to file as partisan candidate | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| SB 483 | Increasing civil penalties for failure to file required campaign finance reports | Pending | 3rd Reading | 04/12/25 | |
| SB 484 | Relating to disclosures and penalties associated with use of synthetic media and artificial intelligence | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| SB 486 | Clarifying eligibility requirements to vote in WV elections | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 17, 2025) | ||
| SB 487 | Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 15, 2025) | ||
| SB 488 | Clarifying definition of electioneering | Rejected | 04/12/25 | ||
| SB 489 | Relating to election law violation complaints and procedures | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| SB 490 | Prohibiting ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2025) | ||
| SB 491 | Relating to reporting requirements and spending thresholds for expenditures on elections | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| SB 492 | Removing outdated provisions governing political committees | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 22, 2025) | ||
| SB 493 | Removing the amount limitations on contributions to all political committees | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| SB 494 | Expanding time frame for certain electioneering communication reporting requirements | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| SB 495 | Requiring contact information for chair of political committee | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| SB 514 | Requiring full text of proposed Constitutional amendments be included on official ballots | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| SB 521 | Requiring party affiliations be listed for all candidates | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/13/25 |
| SB 523 | Requiring candidates for municipal offices to file campaign financial statements and financial reports | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/19/25 |
| SB 524 | Clarifying persons permitted to be present in polling place during election period for non-voting activities | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/25 |
| SB 564 | Prohibiting voters not affiliated with major political party from voting ballot of political party in primary election | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/05/25 |
| SB 586 | Relating to requirements for filling vacancies in certain elected federal, state, and county offices | Signed | Effective from passage - (April 12, 2025) | ||
| SB 593 | Preserving voting data from electronic voting machines | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 04/04/25 |
| SB 624 | Relating to vacancies in offices of state officials | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/27/25 |
| SB 642 | Relating to vacancies in office of magistrate | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/25 |
| SB 643 | Restoring voting rights for person incarcerated for felony upon release | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/25 |
| SB 743 | Adjusting percentage of tax retained by clerk of county commission for certain purposes | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/26/25 |
| SB 796 | Establishing legal voter identification standards | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/18/25 |
| SB 802 | Establishing system for tracking receipt and status of absentee voter ballots | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/24/25 |
| SB 877 | Requiring resolution passed by Legislature to include language to be included on official ballots | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/21/25 |
| HB 2022 | Relating to changing political parties less than one year prior to being appointed to political office. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/18/25 |
| HB 2032 | Removing the Office of County Surveyor from election ballots | Pending | House Local Government | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| HB 2062 | Requiring all Municipal Elections to be held on West Virginia state and federal General Election dates. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2077 | To require voters to include either their West Virginia driver’s license number or any alternative identification information authorized by the West Virginia Secretary of State on their absentee ballot applications | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2078 | Requiring candidates to live in the state or local election district for the office for which they are seeking | Pending | House Legal Services | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| HB 2080 | Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2082 | To ban the unsolicited distribution of absentee applications by third parties and election officials. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2083 | Requiring absentee ballots to be received by the time polls close on election day. | Pending | House Legal Services | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| HB 2098 | To reduce the chances of election fraud | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2117 | Relating to when Mail In Ballots are Due | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 2119 | Eliminating requirement for write-in candidates to register with Secretary of State in order to qualify write-in candidate votes to be counted. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2126 | Say No to Good Old Boy Governance | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2131 | Relating to changing the process of election litigation | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/18/25 |
| HB 2141 | To modify certain election laws, early voting laws, and absentee voting laws | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2147 | Relating to federal involvement in elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2171 | Changing the local school board election from the Primary to the General | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/12/25 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to formerly incarcerated individuals voting rights | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/13/25 |
| HB 2381 | Relating to permitting a citizen of this state to vote in the election of a municipality in which the citizen does not reside | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/17/25 |
| HB 2398 | Convention of states delegates have penalties for deviating from what they were sent to convention for | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/14/25 |
| HB 2400 | Prohibiting the delivery of unsolicited absentee ballot applications to any person who has not specifically requested one from the county clerk | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/01/25 | |
| HB 2408 | To Prohibit Ranked Choice Voting in WV | Pending | House Legal Services | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| HB 2422 | Require all municipal elections be held on the same election day in November that other state elections are on | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/21/25 |
| HB 2440 | Relating to the time and place of holding primary elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/25 |
| HB 2447 | Relating to modernization of procedures for voting in public elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/25 |
| HB 2489 | Providing for election reform and protections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/25 |
| HB 2541 | Provisions for election observers during any election and at any voting or ballot-reviewing and ballot-counting location within West Virginia | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/18/25 |
| HB 2608 | Requiring sign up to run as an independent in January of election year | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/25 |
| HB 2611 | Relating to allowing localities contiguous to the border of West Virginia to join the state via local elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/19/25 |
| HB 2683 | To prohibit rank choice voting | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/06/25 | |
| HB 2709 | Permitting a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 6, 2025) | ||
| HB 2719 | Campaign finance and reporting | Rejected | 03/13/25 | ||
| HB 2754 | Banning Foreign backed spending on State Ballot Issues | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/21/25 |
| HB 2817 | To require that political action committees (“PACs”) have the same reporting requirement as candidates for public office. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2823 | Permitting anyone over 65 to vote absentee | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2832 | Remove felonies from reason to disqualify from voting | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2872 | Give a 10-day right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals a Secretary of State decision to not certify a candidacy. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2901 | Allowing the Secretary of State’s office to transmit electronically the total ballots cast, counted, and rejected | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2919 | Creating online voters' guide | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/25 |
| HB 2966 | Requiring certain disclosures of election expenditures | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/25 |
| HB 2970 | Relating to requiring certain information with an absentee ballot | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/25 |
| HB 3016 | Photo voter ID. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 11, 2025) | ||
| HB 3017 | Compliance Audits of Tabulating Equipment | Rejected | 04/09/25 | ||
| HB 3027 | Require all registered voters to produce a photo ID to vote in all public office elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/28/25 |
| HB 3073 | Requiring separate voting equipment to be used for training purposes only | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/03/25 |
| HB 3113 | Increasing the percentage of precincts to be audited during the election canvass | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| HB 3118 | To adjust the percent retained by the clerk of the county commission for funding election administration, infrastructure, and security, and other county clerk purposes | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| HB 3120 | Requiring full text of proposed Constitutional amendments be included on official ballots | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/04/25 |
| HB 3172 | Refer instances of election fraud to the attorney general for prosecution | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/06/25 |
| HB 3203 | Relating to county commission vacancies | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/06/25 |
| HB 3204 | Verification of voter’s physical address by Secretary of State | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/06/25 |
| HB 3216 | Election integrity and People’s vote protection act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3227 | Requiring the Governor appoint a new member of the House of Delegates from the same political party from which the elected member vacating the seat was elected | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3238 | Relating to election integrity | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/07/25 |
| HB 3305 | Changing the limit on switching parties before filing to run for office from 60 days to 180 days prior to an election. | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/31/25 |
| HB 3320 | Limit the amount of spending for political campaigns to a set maximum. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/12/25 |
| HB 3376 | Allowing for an emergency levy election to be held under certain circumstances. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/14/25 |
| HB 3386 | Creating the Taxpayer Accountability for Public Service Act. | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/14/25 |
| HB 3400 | Requiring political action committee to disclose contributors' names and addresses to Secretary of State | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/19/25 |
| HB 3439 | Relating to registration of voters and voluntary registration of organ donors | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/27/25 |
| HB 3454 | Allow school board members to run for the state legislature | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/17/25 |
| HB 3461 | To change the election dates for intermediate court of appeals judges to the genreal elections | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/17/25 |
| HB 3463 | To move the election of Supreme Court Justices to the general election | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/17/25 |