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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exempting certain complimentary hotel rooms from hotel occupancy tax"
+description: "Exempting certain complimentary hotel rooms from hotel occupancy tax"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 3045"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3045 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Local and Special Laws", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cowles"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-12"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8b1d37d-9204-4b9b-a58e-41724478cbe9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3045&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "965103146a5132da45fe41975027b8a545098c898e37e60193e3fd48e2100418"
+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 3045 (2019) — Exempting certain complimentary hotel rooms from hotel occupancy 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=hb3045%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3045)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3045%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3045)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **29–4** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cowles — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Skaff — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-20** Do pass
+- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 294) `passage`
+- **2019-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-26** House Message received
+- **2019-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-01** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading
+- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 359) `passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 255, 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/c8b1d37d-9204-4b9b-a58e-41724478cbe9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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