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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021"
+description: "Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 42"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 42 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities", "Real and Personal Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woelfel"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ef15ee3-32b8-44f7-8196-967bfd57857e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=42&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "5b0c40b056061f6da454bf36e086bcf8dc550e66e2f50527e5db0b95e16c66ce"
+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 42 (2021) — Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021
+
+## 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=SB42%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
+5. **SB42 SFA SWOPE 2-23 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB42 SFA SWOPE 2-23 _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **SB42 SFAT _1 SWOPE 2-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB42 SFAT _1 SWOPE 2-23 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woelfel — primary (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-02-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-02-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-19** Committee substitute reported
+- **2021-02-22** On 1st reading
+- **2021-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-02-23** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/23/21
+- **2021-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-24** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-02-25** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-25** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 38) `passage`
+- **2021-02-25** Ordered to House
+- **2021-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-02-26** To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Judiciary
+- **2021-02-26** To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-11** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2021-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-15** Do pass
+- **2021-03-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-18** Passed House (Roll No. 188) `passage`
+- **2021-03-18** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-03-18** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-03-19** House Message received
+- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/23/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-25** To Governor 3/23/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/29/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 68, 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/6ef15ee3-32b8-44f7-8196-967bfd57857e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+