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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax"
+description: "Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2515"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2515 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-18"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/541ee40c-6bcc-4659-bfad-fa88d5858ff4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2515&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "879b12830e0c75ee2e42aa18e814fbbf49c10df43742faf87785f68f74b56353"
+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 HB 2515 (2019) — Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2515%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2515)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2515%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2515)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Butler — primary (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Fast — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kump — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Shott — cosponsor (person)
+- Storch — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-18** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2019-02-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** With title amendment, do pass
+- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-20** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2019-02-20** Amendment ruled not germane
+- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 225) `passage`
+- **2019-02-21** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-22** House Message received
+- **2019-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 377) `passage`
+- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-18** To Governor 3/18/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 251, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/541ee40c-6bcc-4659-bfad-fa88d5858ff4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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