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WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Enrolled
Senate Bill 621
By Senators Willis, Woelfel, and Thorne
[Passed March 24, 2025; in effect 90 days from passage (June 22, 2025)]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §51-1-12 and §51-3-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing digital court records; providing duties of Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals or designated staff to include preserving digital and physical court records; requiring orders to be entered in a book or kept digitally by clerk of court; and removing requirement that order books be signed by judge or presiding officer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals to attend in person, or by designated staff, all the sessions of the court, to obey its orders and directions, to preserve all digital and physical court records, and to perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law or required of him or her by the court.
The orders of every court shall be entered in a book or kept digitally by the clerk of court.
The Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.
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Clerk of the Senate
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Clerk of the House of Delegates
Originated in the Senate.
In effect 90 days from passage.
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President of the Senate
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Speaker of the House of Delegates
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Governor
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