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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exempting certain organizations from property taxation"
+description: "Exempting certain organizations from property taxation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 149"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 149 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5271c46-03f5-4fa4-8b79-1f59cb5cc52d"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=149&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "9a53edefeb0a748131711ce8c1143d151b709c706aebf73fde19cc1f5eb6285e"
+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 149 (2023) — Exempting certain organizations from property taxation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb149%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=149)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb149%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=149)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-01-11** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2023-01-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-11** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 46)
+- **2023-01-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 47) `passage`
+- **2023-01-11** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-06** Do pass
+- **2023-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 591) `passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-10** House Message received
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 304, 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/f5271c46-03f5-4fa4-8b79-1f59cb5cc52d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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