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SB 626 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relating to qualifications of regional airport authority members

SB 626 amends West Virginia law to allow participating municipalities or counties to appoint nonresident members to regional airport authority boards. This change directly affects regional airport authorities and their governing boards. The key provision requires a 90-day public notice period through a legal advertisement (per §59-3-1 et seq.) before appointing a nonresident to fill an initial position or vacancy. The bill modifies existing membership qualifications without changing airport operations or funding.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 27, 2025 Last action Mar 31, 2025
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What changed between versions

Committee Substitute → Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was amended to add a second sponsor (Senator Oliverio) and update the reporting date to March 27, 2025. A minor grammatical correction was made to clarify that members represent the municipality or county, and the article title was updated to use an em-dash instead of a hyphen.
TECHNICAL

Added Senator Oliverio as a co-sponsor and updated the committee report date from March 21 to March 27, 2025.

Corrected a grammatical error in the qualification section by changing 'which said the members represent' to 'which said that the members represent'.

Changed the punctuation in the article title from a hyphen to an em-dash for formatting consistency.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 29, 2025

How they voted

31–1
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
Mar 29, 2025
D Democratic2
2 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican31
29 Yea 1 Nay 1
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
19
Key actions
3
Committee
7
Mar 31, 2025
Committee
To House Government Organization
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Committee
To Government Organization
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
Mar 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Roll No. 223)
upper
Mar 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
upper
Mar 21, 2025
Committee
To Government Organization
upper
Mar 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Committee
To Economic Development
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Committee
To Economic Development then Government Organization
upper
0 primary · 1 co-sponsor

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.