New West Virginia laws taking effect July 10, 2025

26 laws take effect July 10, 2025.

Of the 537 bills enacted since 2025, 537 have an effective date and 0 don't yet (pending). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.

Updated Nov 2, 2026 at 6:22 p.m. EST.

Crime (7)

  • HB 2802 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 2871 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to the crime of negligent homicide

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 3014 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating generally to liability of hospital police

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 3338 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Allow child witness testify remotely in situations deemed traumatic by judge

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 3424 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Removing language regarding short term loans being provided to released inmates for costs related to reentry into the community

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 3434 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to the controlled substance schedules and to clean-up errors identified in the code sections

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 3504 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to protecting critical infrastructure; and defining terms

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Education (4)

  • HB 2167 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to public charter schools code provisions

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 2411 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB 2528 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    To permit students in Christian schools at the elementary and middle school level to participate in county level sport tournaments

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 449 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Permitting compressed air and rimfire shooting teams in public schools

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Finance (4)

  • HB 2963 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    To ensure that the survivor of a merger, reorganization, purchase, or assumption of liabilities of a bank chartered by West Virginia is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 561 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to Uniform Special Deposits Act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 677 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing fees charged by Commissioner of Securities for each offering

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 747 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to Real Estate License Act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Traffic (3)

  • HB 2960 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Allowing the Division of Highways to contract out snow removal to private companies on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 1 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring utility work and road paving coordination

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 794 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Mining and Drilling (2)

  • HB 3336 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Well Plugging methods

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 883 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing director of WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training discretion and authority in certain appointments

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Budget (1)

  • SB 75 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Changing distribution of income from excess lottery fund

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Government (1)

  • HB 3440 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating generally to removing and repealing obsolete provisions under the purview of the State Treasurer’s Office

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Healthcare (1)

  • SB 652 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Housing (1)

  • HB 2434 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to establishing the Stop Squatters Act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Public Lands (1)

  • HB 2836 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Relating to wild animal rehabilitation permits

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out

Taxes (1)

  • HB 3373 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    To extend and revise the sunset provision in the Tourism Development Act to December 31, 2030

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 10, 2025).

    How effective dates are worked out