SB 892 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relating to property valuation

West Virginia Senate Bill 892 creates a Property Valuation Training and Procedures Commission under the Department of Tax and Revenue. The bill specifies how county assessors, county commissioners, and citizen members (including a certified appraiser) are appointed, requiring nominees to meet monitoring requirements and giving preference to those with certification from recognized appraisal organizations. It also limits political party representation on the commission (no more than two members from the same party for nominations) and sets term lengths for initial appointments. This bill focuses on clarifying the nomination process for commission members, not changing property valuation methods or tax rates.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 24, 2025 Last action Mar 29, 2025

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Introduced Version → Committee Substitute · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill text was reformatted from a legislative introduction version to a committee substitute version, with significant structural changes including the addition of numbered subsections (1-5) to paragraph (a), correction of grammatical errors, and removal of explanatory notes. The substantive policy content regarding commission composition, appointment procedures, term lengths, and compensation remains unchanged.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; changes are primarily formatting and editorial improvements to the legislative text.

TECHNICAL

Text was restructured from paragraph format to numbered subsections (1-5) for better organization and clarity.

Multiple grammatical corrections were made throughout the text, including fixing redundant words like 'serves serves' and 'no not more than two'.

Explanatory notes and website navigation elements were removed as they were not part of the actual bill language.

Committee substitute metadata including report date and committee information was added.

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Committee

Mar 29, 2025

Committee

Referred to Rules on 2nd reading

upper

Mar 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

To Government Organization

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

To Government Organization then Finance

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors