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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry"
+description: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2908"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2908 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-23"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfe4885e-a3be-4b2d-bee6-32e12052b70d"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2908&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ce8d817fdd45635ae5ea93025e02d65233b8c2dd790dbf8adf32a93584202754"
+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 2908 (2023) — Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Commerce, Division of Forestry
+
+## 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=hb2908%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2908)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2908%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2908)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2908%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2908)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hanshaw — primary (person)
+- Skaff — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-23** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28** By substitute, do pass
+- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 458) `passage`
+- **2023-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 459)
+- **2023-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-03-08** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 505) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 505)
+- **2023-03-10** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 14, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfe4885e-a3be-4b2d-bee6-32e12052b70d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+