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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities"
+description: "Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 578"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 578 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-01-22"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dff7253-6cdf-43d9-be91-7f6d1b85a514"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=578&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "35465774a727bcd2f8dde71bc37088428e32d523206c1267da3c5168811e49c4"
+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 578 (2020) — Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities
+
+## 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=SB578%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB578%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB578%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
+4. **SB578 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB578 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-2 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **76–20** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **81–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-22** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Finance
+- **2020-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-22** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2020-02-14** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Committee substitute reported
+- **2020-02-20** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-21** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 226) `passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 226)
+- **2020-02-24** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-25** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-25** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-29** Do pass
+- **2020-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 510) `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-04** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 511)
+- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 478) `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 478)
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 326, 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/9dff7253-6cdf-43d9-be91-7f6d1b85a514`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+