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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Classifying forestry equipment for levy purposes"
+description: "Classifying forestry equipment for levy purposes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 4416"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4416 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hott"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c3f632a-ef8a-4511-8338-e2103c3efef4"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4416&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1ddd5ee1165f9d0d41ea29ea0310afe9f98413026463e2fb24ba55de4c2d6aa9"
+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 4416 (2026) — Classifying forestry equipment for levy purposes
+
+## 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=hb4416%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4416)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4416%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4416)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4416%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4416)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4416%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4416)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **92–3** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hott — primary (person)
+- Horst — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-01-16** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** To House Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-25** By substitute, do pass
+- **2026-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-02** Passed House (Roll No. 236) `passage`
+- **2026-03-02** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-03-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 463) `passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2026-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-13** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-29** Chapter 246, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c3f632a-ef8a-4511-8338-e2103c3efef4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+