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West Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 560: Allowing counties and municipalities to limit utility scale renewable energy facilities

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

SB 560 is a bill introduced in the West Virginia Senate on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Allowing counties and municipalities to limit utility scale renewable energy facilities. Primary sponsor: Darren Thorne (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (February 20, 2025): To Economic Development.

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
Darren ThornePrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate15
Patricia RuckerCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate16

“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 Economic Development
  2. Introduced in Senate
  3. To Economic Development then Finance
  4. Filed for introduction

Sources

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