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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants"
+description: "Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "20191S"
+identifier: "HB 207"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 207 (20191S)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-07-22"
+last_action: "2019-10-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ace5a540-9f45-4eef-bbf9-e7ad121558c7"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=207&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d332081fce13d4d6e4503a9e2ac636c0e33d595c3f2c0a5b22f2554bf0f946fb"
+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 207 (20191S) — Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb207%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=207)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb207%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=207)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb207%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=207)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **76–7** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **77–5** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hanshaw — primary (person)
+- Miley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-07-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-07-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-07-22** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-07-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-07-22** Committed to Finance on 2nd reading
+- **2019-07-23** Do pass
+- **2019-07-23** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-07-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-07-23** Amendment adopted (Division)
+- **2019-07-23** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2019-07-23** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 917)
+- **2019-07-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-07-23** Passed House (Roll No. 918) `passage`
+- **2019-07-23** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-07-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-07-23** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-07-23** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2019-07-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-07-23** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 111)
+- **2019-07-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-07-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-07-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 112) `passage`
+- **2019-07-23** Communicated to House
+- **2019-07-23** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-07-24** To Governor 7/24/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-09-23** To Governor 7/24/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-30** Approved by Governor 7/30/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-23** Approved by Governor 7/30/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-09-23** Approved by Governor 7/30/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-10-01** Chapter 46, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ace5a540-9f45-4eef-bbf9-e7ad121558c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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