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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules"
+description: "Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2233"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2233 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2233&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "0949797dafc9e1a5ef479d082543fe84351357ba71e8029fefea7f41faa00a40"
+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 2233 (2025) — Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **82–14** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **86–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith, D. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Energy and Public Works
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-07** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-11** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-03-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 62) `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 63)
+- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 310) `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 311)
+- **2025-04-04** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+