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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells"
+description: "Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 5268"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5268 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Energy", "Environment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-29"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a251fa7-c208-44ff-9ebf-f5a22a687eac"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5268&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "281bcd127f93688e4d85eb31216d63de71c767277a361059f8c3900ec5335558"
+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 5268 (2024) — Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5268%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5268)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5268%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5268)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-29** To Energy and Manufacturing
+- **2024-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-29** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-07** Do pass
+- **2024-02-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-12** Passed House (Roll No. 150) `passage`
+- **2024-02-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-14** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2024-02-14** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2024-02-21** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-22** On 1st reading
+- **2024-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 248) `passage`
+- **2024-02-24** Senate reconsidered and passed bill (Roll No. 251)
+- **2024-02-24** Communicated to House
+- **2024-02-24** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-02-26** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 134, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a251fa7-c208-44ff-9ebf-f5a22a687eac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+