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West Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 865: Relating to best interests of child standard

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 865 is a bill introduced in the West Virginia Senate on March 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to best interests of child standard. Primary sponsor: Laura Chapman (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (March 26, 2025): To 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 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Laura ChapmanPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate1
Chris RoseCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate2

“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 Judiciary
  2. Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
  3. To Health and Human Resources
  4. Introduced in Senate
  5. To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
  6. Filed for introduction

Sources

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