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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location"
+description: "Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3144"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3144 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-04"
+last_action: "2025-07-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f671338-58a0-450c-a6ef-920d815241b2"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3144&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "4deff107cd1c57178febb58ba92999def99c0ad050a778885313d3bd15e6f49c"
+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 3144 (2025) — Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location
+
+## 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=hb3144%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Linville — primary (person)
+- Akers — cosponsor (person)
+- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
+- Kump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-04** To Energy and Public Works
+- **2025-03-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-04** 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** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/20/2025
+- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/21/2025
+- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-21** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/24/2025
+- **2025-03-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-24** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** Passed House (Roll No. 186) `passage`
+- **2025-03-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-26** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 440) `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-10** 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`
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
+- **2025-04-30** Became law 4/30/2025
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
+- **2025-07-23** Chapter 42, 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/6f671338-58a0-450c-a6ef-920d815241b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+