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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds"
+description: "Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 3308"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3308 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-02-07"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc85c5c5-8f41-4764-9755-b8dd34a1e724"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3308&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b244a36401659bb0e5c9d218ecfc50d434df6924800ae87c60fd15f30650f150"
+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 3308 (2023) — Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds
+
+## 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=hb3308%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3308%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3308%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Criss — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
+- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Storch — cosponsor (person)
+- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-07** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-10** By substitute, do pass
+- **2023-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 159) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 160)
+- **2023-02-15** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-25** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-27** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-28** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 324) `passage`
+- **2023-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 324)
+- **2023-02-28** Communicated to House
+- **2023-02-28** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-01** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 293, 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/cc85c5c5-8f41-4764-9755-b8dd34a1e724`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+