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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets"
+description: "Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 2253"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2253 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime", "Legal Gaming"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bb6199e-c1c8-4ee3-9b8c-113f76bfa1be"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2253&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "2f3347c57cdad21e807a12cb169dc63de676aa96785d4f0fd3eab0cd9a169cdd"
+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 2253 (2021) — Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets
+
+## 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=HB2253%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2253)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2253%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2253)
+3. **HB2253 HFA KESSINGER 2-22 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2253 HFA KESSINGER 2-22 _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB2253 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2253 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2253%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2253)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Steele — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-02-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-02-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-17** Do pass
+- **2021-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-22** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2021-02-22** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 48) `passage`
+- **2021-02-22** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-31** On 1st reading
+- **2021-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-01** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-01** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-02** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 295) `passage`
+- **2021-04-02** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2021-04-05** House received Senate message
+- **2021-04-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 427)
+- **2021-04-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-06** House Message received
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-04-15** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-20** Chapter 87, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bb6199e-c1c8-4ee3-9b8c-113f76bfa1be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+