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Votes at a glance: West Virginia Senate passes multiple bills on March 11, 2025

March 12, 2025 | 2025 Legislature WV, West Virginia


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Votes at a glance: West Virginia Senate passes multiple bills on March 11, 2025
The West Virginia Senate on March 11, 2025, took final action on multiple bills. Highlights from recorded roll-call votes and floor action included measures affecting schools, local taxation, health reporting and agency administration.

• Committee substitute for Senate Bill 280 — display of United States motto in public schools: The Senate passed the bill on third reading; the clerk recorded 33 yeas, 1 nay, 0 absent not voting. The bill requires display of a durable poster or framed copy of the United States motto "In God We Trust" in every classroom and specifies the flag be pictured under the motto. The requirement is subject to donation of the poster or framed copy and applies to charter schools as recorded on the floor.

• Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 500 — audits of volunteer fire departments: The bill amends state code to move responsibility for auditing volunteer fire department finances to the legislative auditor, making that office responsible for audits regardless of funding source. The legislative auditor’s post-audit division provided a fiscal note indicating it believes it has qualified staff. The transcript records passage on third reading; a roll-call tally is not specified in the transcript.

• Committee substitute for Senate Bill 532 — ad valorem taxes for mineral property: The Senate passed the bill; clerk reported 34 yays, 0 nays. The bill clarifies the county where minerals are located is the proper county to levy ad valorem taxes on mineral property.

• Engrossed committee substitute for Senate Bill 606 — breast density notification: The measure requires patient summaries for mammography screening to include specified language about breast density categories and requires the report to a health-care provider to include the patient's breast density category. The clerk reported 34 yays, 0 nays.

• Supplementary appropriation language for Department of Health Office of Inspector General: The Senate passed a supplemental appropriation allowing the inspector general to transfer money between appropriations; clerk recorded 34 yays, 0 nays. The sponsor urged passage on third reading.

• Engrossed Senate Bill 650 — full-time interventionists (K–3 classrooms): The Senate passed the bill on third reading; clerk reported 34 yays, 0 nays. The bill allows schools flexibility in deploying interventionists in early-grade classrooms and permits expanded hours to provide after-school intervention services.

Several other bills were introduced, referred to committees, or reported out of committee during the session. Where the transcript records a roll-call tally, the result above reflects the clerk’s announced count; where no tally is reported in the transcript the article indicates the result is recorded on the floor but the transcript does not supply a numeric vote.

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