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West Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2608: Requiring sign up to run as an independent in January of election year

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2608 is a bill introduced in the West Virginia House on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring sign up to run as an independent in January of election year. Primary sponsor: Rick Hillenbrand (Republican). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 19, 2025): To House Judiciary.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Rick HillenbrandPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse88
Eric BrooksCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse45
Joe FunkhouserCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse98
Margitta MazzocchiCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Bill RidenourCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse100
Chuck SheedyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse7
Lisa WhiteCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse96

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. To House Judiciary
  2. Introduced in House
  3. To Judiciary
  4. Filed for introduction

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source