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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts."
+description: "Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3492"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3492 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-18"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc78de1a-dba1-4a21-9232-e56413297f34"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3492&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "f2038eafb53498f9474789027a46bad143b950b1d6b21836190f796b05a20171"
+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 3492 (2025) — Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3492%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3492%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3492%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
+4. **hb3492 s ecd am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3492%20s%20ecd%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
+5. **hb3492 s ecd amt _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3492%20s%20ecd%20amt%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **86–12** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **22–12** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **81–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rohrbach — primary (person)
+- Amos — cosponsor (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-18** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-18** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** Do pass
+- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-27** Amendment ruled not germane
+- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-28** Passed House (Roll No. 253) `passage`
+- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-01** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 507) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 581)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **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** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 188, 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/fc78de1a-dba1-4a21-9232-e56413297f34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+