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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants"
+description: "Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 542"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 542 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Energy"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Phillips"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-03"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a0937a6-0713-4d70-b17f-1f40ca372e94"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=542&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "3d7b569c9e9b03c375cfbdfded3ca26086a51f7b55c21f793ffdcf5355810d9a"
+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 542 (2021) — Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No. 558)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2021/RS/votes/house/00558.pdf)
+2. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
+3. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB2.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
+4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
+6. **SB542 HFA EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB542 HFA EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm)
+7. **SB542 HFAT EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB542 HFAT EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-03-03** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary
+- **2021-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-03-03** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2021-03-11** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
+- **2021-03-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-29** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
+- **2021-03-29** Immediate consideration
+- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 266) `passage`
+- **2021-03-31** Ordered to House
+- **2021-04-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-04-01** To Energy and Manufacturing
+- **2021-04-01** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06** Do pass
+- **2021-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-08** Amendment pending
+- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-09** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2021-04-09** Amendment adopted (Roll No. 558)
+- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 559) `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-10** House Message received
+- **2021-04-10** Senate refused to concur and requested House to recede (Roll No. 442)
+- **2021-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2021-04-10** House received Senate message
+- **2021-04-10** House receded (Roll No. 627)
+- **2021-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 628) `passage`
+- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-10** House Message received
+- **2021-04-16** To Governor 4/16/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 110, 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/0a0937a6-0713-4d70-b17f-1f40ca372e94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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