The West Virginia legislature adjourned its regular session on April 17. Before it adjourned, it passed HB 2805, which extends public funding for candidates for State Supreme Court through the 2016 election. The program had been used for the first time in 2012 as a pilot project. The bill also eliminates the part of the program that provides extra public funding for candidates who have well-funded privately-funded opponents, because that part of the program had been held unconstitutional.

Bills to convert judicial elections into non-partisan elections, to ease the vote test for a party to remain on the ballot, and to curtail the straight-ticket device, all failed to pass.