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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Deregulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating, and cooling systems"
+description: "Deregulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating, and cooling systems"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 506"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 506 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Swope"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-07"
+last_action: "2018-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94850313-1c80-461d-bead-c1296c0728eb"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=506&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "389c134bf36846467860c3ffb2a2ef38b80f732054693cf73854324eaacd2198"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia SB 506 (2018) — Deregulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating, and cooling systems
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB506%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=506)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB506%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=506)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB506%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=506)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB506%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=506)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **89–9** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Swope — primary (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-02-07** To Workforce then Government Organization
+- **2018-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-07** To Workforce
+- **2018-02-23** Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
+- **2018-02-23** Immediate consideration
+- **2018-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-23** On 2nd reading to Government Organization
+- **2018-02-23** Senate further considered bill
+- **2018-02-23** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2018-02-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-26** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-02-27** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 211) `passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Ordered to House
+- **2018-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 409) `passage`
+- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-09** House Message received
+- **2018-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 460)
+- **2018-03-09** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-23** Chapter 133, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94850313-1c80-461d-bead-c1296c0728eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+