| WV | SB50 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require municipal elections to be held on statewide election days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
On 3rd reading |
| WV | SB488 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the definition of electioneering, exclude non-express advocacy from the definition of electioneering, permit the use of cellular phones for personal reference within the electioneering prohibition zone and insid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
On 2nd reading |
| WV | SB490 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit ranked-choice voting in elections in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
On 2nd reading |
| WV | SB487 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove ineligible voters from active voter rolls; remove obsolete reference to combined voter registration and licensing fund; decrease the period of voting inactivity from four to two years; and provide an internal eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
On 1st reading |
| WV | SB486 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the qualifications of persons entitled to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
On 2nd reading |
| WV | HB2400 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the delivery of unsolicited absentee ballot applications to any person who has not specifically requested one from the county clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-01
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB489 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to standardize and increase compliance with election law investigations by providing uniform procedures, deadlines, and specific outcomes in law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Laid over on 1st reading 2/28/2025 |
| WV | SB483 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase compliance with statutory requirements for the timely filing of campaign finance reports and provide stricter penalties including higher fines and turning over unpaid civil penalties to debt collection agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Laid over on 2nd reading 2/28/2025 |
| WV | SB484 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of synthetic media and artificial intelligence to influence an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Laid over on 1st reading 2/28/2025 |
| WV | HB2719 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for membership organizations and domestic corporations to make political contributions and expenditures in certain circumstances. The bill establishes disclosure requirements and limitations on any such political ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Legal Services Committee |
| WV | HB3027 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that in elections for candidates for public office, all registered voters shall produce a valid identifying document containing a photograph in order to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2702 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor to appoint an acting official to perform the duties of the constitutional officer until the office is filled by appointment by the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2683 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit ranked choice voting in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2709 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a voter with a change of address to vote in his or her new precinct without having to cast a provisional ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3016 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a photograph on all valid identifying documents used for voter identification purposes and to ensure that driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards issued to lawful noncitizen residents are easily dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3017 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure compliance with state law requiring ballot tabulating equipment to be not connected to the internet, and to require reports of the inspections and audits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB624 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor to appoint an acting official to perform the duties of the constitutional officer until the office is filled by appointment by the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB586 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the appointment of an individual to fill a vacant elected office if that person has not been a member of his or her registered political party for at least one year prior to the occurrence of the vacancy, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2117 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the date when mail in ballots are due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2966 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require disclosure of dark money political expenditures to allow the public to know who is paying for political advertisements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2970 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect absentee voters' personal information from being displayed on the outside of an absentee ballot envelope sent through the mail, and to require personally identifiable information to be provided with an absentee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB593 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the county clerks to collect and preserve all voting data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB139 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to the require residency of a person within the district or county he or she will represent for one year prior to any appointment to a vacancy in the office of State Senator or as a member of the House of Delegates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2832 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition on persons convicted of certain felonies from voter registration and to allow persons to re-register to vote following completion of their sentence or pardon; requiring the Division of Corrections...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2872 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give a 10-day right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals a Secretary of State decision to not certify a candidacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2901 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that the boards of canvassers transmit electronically to the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, the total ballots cast, counted, and rejected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2823 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow voters 65 and older to vote absentee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2919 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish an accessible online voters' guide on the Secretary of State's website. The guide would be created by the State Election Commission using information provided on certificates of announcement. Candidates for st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2896 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that Commissioners to the Public Service Commission be an elected position; to establish that during the general election in 2026 three commissioners be elected to the Public Service Commission to a term of four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2817 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the requirements for reporting independent expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2131 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to recognize legal standing of the West Virginia Legislature in court actions related to unauthorized changes to election laws and rules; and identify the Legislature as a necessary party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB564 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit voters not affiliated with a major political party from voting the primary election ballot of any political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2754 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ban foreign backed spending on state ballot issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB523 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase transparency into county and municipal campaign finance activities by requiring all campaign finance reports for all elected offices in the state to be published online within 48 hours of the deadline, and to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB524 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify individuals permitted to be present in a polling place during an election period while voting is taking place for normal non-voting activities that normally occur at the location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2608 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require independent candidates for political office to file for office as an independent in January of an election year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2381 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a citizen of this state to vote in the election of a municipality in which the citizen does not reside when the citizen pays service or user fees to the municipality, owns property within the municipality, or own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Legal Services Committee |
| WV | HB2408 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit ranked choice voting in elections in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Legal Services Committee |
| WV | HB2541 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure for election observers during any election and at any voting or ballot-reviewing and ballot-counting location within this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2549 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the term of office of sheriff from four years to six years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB514 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that the full text of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be included on ballots used in the election at which amendments are submitted to the voters of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB521 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to electoral reforms of the West Virginia judiciary and Boards of Education generally. The bill requires the election of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals, circuit court judges, family court judges, magistrates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2422 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that municipal elections be held concurrently with regularly scheduled primary or general elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Local Governments Committee |
| WV | HB2440 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the date for the primary election for the office of the President of United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2458 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the School Board Election Date Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2489 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for election reform. The bill defines "Public Election Related Information and Data." The bill allows for the public disclosure of this data through the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"). The bill provides for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2447 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modernize procedures for access to, and security for, voting in public elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB493 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the existing amount limitations on contributions to all political committees beginning on July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB495 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is add contact information of the committee chair and require and acknowledgment in the statement of organization that the committee must adhere to the reporting requirements set forth in the campaign finance laws of West Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB491 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase transparency in independent expenditure political communications by increasing the timeframe for when independent expenditures trigger a report, reducing the spending thresholds for reporting, and requiring wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
