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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate"
+description: "Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 2967"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2967 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hardy"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-08"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5200f40-8277-41a8-9de1-b4827862c15a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2967&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a767aa827555b531cb4f180ff1b1554d0262191095cc555108e6c40c076611ba"
+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 2967 (2020) — Permitting a county to retain the excise taxes for the privilege of transferring title of real estate
+
+## 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=HB2967%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2967)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2967%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2967)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2967%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2967)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hardy — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
+- Cowles — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Linville — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-08** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-02-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 93) `passage`
+- **2020-02-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-06** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Removed from calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Returned to calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/5/20
+- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 544) `passage`
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 331, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5200f40-8277-41a8-9de1-b4827862c15a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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