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West Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 198: Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography

Enacted 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

SB 198 is a bill introduced in the West Virginia Senate on February 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography. Primary sponsor: Amy Grady (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (August 8, 2025): Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2025.

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 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Amy GradyPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate4
Vince DeedsCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate10

“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. Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2025
  2. Approved by Governor 4/24/2025
  3. To Governor 4/14/2025
  4. Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal
  5. Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal
  6. To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal
  7. To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal
  8. Completed legislative action
  9. Communicated to House
  10. Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 449)
  11. House Message received
  12. Communicated to Senate

Showing 12 most recent of 40 actions. Full history

Sources

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