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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the taxation of managed timber"
+description: "Relating to the taxation of managed timber"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2399"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2399 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hillenbrand"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de6767a3-5eaa-4ff2-935e-134921064b14"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2399&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "df5350c52e3c757df91bf25229afe65092a3b6dbd82196eb996c32b8f7b337fe"
+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 2399 (2025) — Relating to the taxation of managed timber
+
+## 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=hb2399%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2399)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2399%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2399)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2399%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2399)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2399%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2399)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **91–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hillenbrand — primary (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Horst — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
+- Masters — cosponsor (person)
+- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-14** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-27** Passed House (Roll No. 210) `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-29** To Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-29** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-03** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2025-04-03** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 331) `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-07** 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 228, 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/de6767a3-5eaa-4ff2-935e-134921064b14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+