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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to distributing hotel occupancy tax to convention and visitor's bureaus"
+description: "Relating to distributing hotel occupancy tax to convention and visitor's bureaus"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 488"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 488 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-01"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49294739-1d71-4c3c-aa0b-744a206f1378"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=488&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "bd099cdb9a7d611cf13d0845ac17db9b5de473290897d6b914f9322710c9543a"
+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 488 (2021) — Relating to distributing hotel occupancy tax to convention and visitor's bureaus
+
+## 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=SB488%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=488)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB488%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=488)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB488%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=488)
+4. **SB488 SFA _1 MAYNARD 3-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB488 SFA _1 MAYNARD 3-27 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maynard — primary (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-03-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-03-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-25** On 1st reading
+- **2021-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-03-26** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/26/21
+- **2021-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-27** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-03-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 227) `passage`
+- **2021-03-29** Ordered to House
+- **2021-03-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-03-30** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-05** Do pass
+- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2021-04-08** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 517) `passage`
+- **2021-04-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-09** House Message received
+- **2021-04-13** To Governor 4/13/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-21** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 71, 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/49294739-1d71-4c3c-aa0b-744a206f1378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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