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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Applying penalties for nonpayment of royalties under terms of oil and natural gas leases"
+description: "Applying penalties for nonpayment of royalties under terms of oil and natural gas leases"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 22"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 22 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Finance and Administration", "Natural Resources"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6af600d3-b655-4037-8544-f690caa8e585"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=22&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a614b12aa6052ce9715737ef6ebb92f56159ddc91aba364b9af9b54adebe07b4"
+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 SB 22 (2025) — Applying penalties for nonpayment of royalties under terms of oil and natural gas leases
+
+## 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=sb22%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=22)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb22%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=22)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb22%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=22)
+4. **sb22 hfat akers 3-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb22%20hfat%20akers%203-27%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
+- **2025-03-04** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-05** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 71) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-24** 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** Placed on House Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2025-04-04** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-03** Passed House (Roll No. 375) `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-07** House Message received
+- **2025-04-07** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 322) `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01** Became law 5/1/2025
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 113, 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/6af600d3-b655-4037-8544-f690caa8e585`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+