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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development"
+description: "Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 231"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 231 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Swope"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-16"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6df20c9f-95ba-4b1b-9a33-5b1eb8e4905f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=231&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "215d7b1e4d62f26d004b66d2e1f19b267198a3c90ce8d3e33bb51f04f377cf69"
+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 231 (2023) — Transferring administration of WV Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program to Department of Economic Development
+
+## 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=sb231%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=231)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb231%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=231)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Swope — primary (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-16** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-16** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-20** On 1st reading
+- **2023-01-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 65) `passage`
+- **2023-01-24** Ordered to House
+- **2023-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-25** Reference dispensed
+- **2023-01-25** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 43) `passage`
+- **2023-01-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 44)
+- **2023-01-27** House requests Senate to concur in changed effective date
+- **2023-01-30** House Message received
+- **2023-01-30** Senate concurred in House changed effective date
+- **2023-01-30** Effective from passage (Roll No. 87)
+- **2023-01-30** Communicated to House
+- **2023-01-27** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-01-31** House received Senate message
+- **2023-02-01** To Governor 2/1/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-02** To Governor 2/1/23 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-06** Approved by Governor 2/6/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-02-07** Approved by Governor 2/6/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-02-07** Approved by Governor 2/6/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 117, 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/6df20c9f-95ba-4b1b-9a33-5b1eb8e4905f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+