West Virginia Legislature

Legislative Reference Library

The West Virginia Legislature’s digital reference library: its sessions, its Code, and the record of its acts.

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Legislative Sessions

Every regular and extraordinary session from 1863 to the present, with convening and adjournment dates. View as a table or on a timeline.

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Code of 1931

The West Virginia Code as originally enacted in 1931. Browse by chapter, article, and section.

For the Code as currently in force, see the West Virginia Code ↗ at code.wvlegislature.gov.

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Constitutional Amendments

The complete record of amendments submitted to West Virginia voters since 1872, including each measure’s outcome and vote totals.

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Legislative Publications

Every volume of the Legislature’s published record — the Acts, the House and Senate Journals, the Blue Books, manuals and directories — catalogued and linked to its scanned volume.

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