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West Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 521: Requiring party affiliations be listed for all candidates

Passed one chamber 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 521 is a bill introduced in the West Virginia Senate on February 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring party affiliations be listed for all candidates. Primary sponsor: Willis. It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 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 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
WillisPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Chris RoseCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate2
Jay TaylorCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate14
Darren ThorneCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate15

“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. To Judiciary
  3. Introduced in House
  4. House received Senate message
  5. Ordered to House
  6. Title amendment adopted
  7. Passed Senate (Roll No. 98)
  8. Read 3rd time
  9. On 3rd reading
  10. Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
  11. Read 2nd time
  12. Laid over on 2nd reading 3/10/2025

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

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