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+type: "Bill"
+title: "To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses"
+description: "To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2451"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2451 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
+version_count: 13
+action_count: 56
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-17"
+last_action: "2025-08-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2451&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d4c97563fe5cf93e208f0f8c660e0355722532689bbcee148d35bf225edf5419"
+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 2451 (2025) — To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses
+
+## 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=hb2451%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
+5. **Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/house/00590.pdf)
+6. **hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfa%20kelly%20_1%204-12%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfa%20kelly%20_1%204-12%20adopted.htm)
+8. **hb2451 hfat anderson 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20anderson%204-12%20adopted.htm)
+9. **hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20kelly%204-12%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
+10. **hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20kelly%204-12%20adopted.htm)
+11. **hb2451 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2451%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+12. **hb2451 sfa queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20sfa%20queen%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)
+13. **hb2451 sfat queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20sfat%20queen%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–26** (pass) · lower
+- TITLE AMENDMENT — **37–58** (fail) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **82–12** (pass) · lower
+- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **59–35** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **28–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hornby — primary (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Horst — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-17** To Energy and Public Works
+- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-17** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** To House Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-06** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-17** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 121) `passage`
+- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** Committee Amendment Reported
+- **2025-04-10** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 515) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
+- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590)
+- **2025-04-12** House Concur in Senate Amendment and Title Amendment rejected (Roll No. 591) `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-12** House requests Senate to recede (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House reconsidered passage (Voice)
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 637)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 605)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-14** Chapter 44, 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/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+