LWVWV Legislative Scorecard 2025
Overview
Before the start of each legislative session, LWVWV adopts a set of legislative priorities. Bills that fall within these priorities tend to be the ones we follow most closely during the legislative session. Those priorities were the starting point for this scorecard.
What did the Legislature do during the 2025 Regular Session?
- 2460 bills introduced for consideration (not counting resolutions)
- 88 of those bills were requested by the Governor
- 249 completed bills (passed both House and Senate; 152 House, 97 Senate)
- 233 completed bills signed into law by the Governor
- 10 completed bills became law without the Governor’s signature
- 6 bills were vetoed by the Governor; plus there were 29 line-item vetoes for the budget bill
Obviously, that is too much for any voter to consume and bills vary in importance.
To construct this Scorecard, we reviewed all 243 bills that became law to select the ones that fit into the four LWVWV legislative priority areas and the ones that were most substantive in terms of content. From the 243, we selected 24 bills to highlight in the Scorecard. Selections were made without regard to bill sponsors or which legislators voted for or against them.
These 24 bills do not provide a complete or representative view of any legislator’s work product. The focus was LWVWV priorities. Voters who disagree with those priorities may still find the Scorecard useful because each bill is presented with full transparency. Whether the League supported or opposed each bill is clearly noted. For more information, every bill is linked to its legislative history on the WV Legislature website.
Summarizes the content of each bill. Color-coded to show LWVWV support (green) or opposition (pink). | |
Tallies votes for each Legislator for each bill. Searchable for individual Legislators by name or district. Votes are color-coded for agreement/disagreement with LWVWV positions. Absent votes also color-coded separately (purple). |
How does this Scorecard deviate from prior ones?
Typically, LWVWV does not include the state budget with all its complexity in the Legislative Scorecard. For 2025, however, we have broken with that practice and included HB 2026, the state budget bill. LWVWV’s opposition to this bill is classified under Protecting Children and Families, not because of what it included but what it did not include. We call your attention, in particular, to the Governor’s 29 line-item vetoes that altered the contents of the budget bill passed by the Legislature.
Two other bills — HB 3356, HB 3357 — would also have been included in this Scorecard, except for our practice of not incorporating supplementary appropriations. LWVWV’s opposition to those bills also would have been classified under Protecting Children and Families.
We have introduced one other change from prior years’ Scorecards. The third section labeled “Summary Detail” has been eliminated because feedback from users told us its content was too easily misinterpreted.