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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing DNR to manage and dispose of property"
+description: "Authorizing DNR to manage and dispose of property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 161"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 161 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-12"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e4a954c-588a-4478-b481-1a60d792d59f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=161&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "f12b090733cd4ae96a051996ee2c20f930d40eb6f4fb9cb61b51b214a3a9bd52"
+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 161 (2023) — Authorizing DNR to manage and dispose of property
+
+## 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=sb161%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=161)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb161%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=161)
+3. **sb161 h jud am _1 1-16 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb161 h jud am _1 1-16 adopted.htm)
+4. **sb161 h jud am _1 1-16 as amended adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb161 h jud am _1 1-16 as amended adopted.htm)
+5. **sb161 hfa kimble and fast 1-19 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb161 hfa kimble and fast 1-19 _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **sb161 hfat capito 1-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb161 hfat capito 1-19 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blair — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Boley — cosponsor (person)
+- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stover — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-12** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-01-12** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2023-01-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-12** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 48)
+- **2023-01-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 49) `passage`
+- **2023-01-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 49)
+- **2023-01-12** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-17** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-18** Amendment pending
+- **2023-01-19** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-19** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2023-01-19** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
+- **2023-01-19** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 9) `passage`
+- **2023-01-19** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 10)
+- **2023-01-19** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-01-20** House Message received
+- **2023-01-20** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 55)
+- **2023-01-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 55)
+- **2023-01-20** Communicated to House
+- **2023-01-20** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-01-23** House received Senate message
+- **2023-01-23** To Governor 1/23/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-01-24** To Governor 1/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-01-24** To Governor 1/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-01-24** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-01-25** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-01-25** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 217, 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/4e4a954c-588a-4478-b481-1a60d792d59f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+