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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to county economic opportunity development districts"
+description: "Relating to county economic opportunity development districts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 749"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 749 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barrett"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-05"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/333d5e88-9eb9-4aab-b615-4c6b57d162d1"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=749&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "9f15594abd87ee99d4e8a16c447c5b0858d311472f5c08e8b0414f9828ad58eb"
+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 749 (2026) — Relating to county economic opportunity development districts
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb749%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=749)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb749%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=749)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **27–7** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **88–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barrett — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-02-05** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-02-05** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-18** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-18** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-21** On 1st reading
+- **2026-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-23** Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 203)
+- **2026-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 212) `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Ordered to House
+- **2026-02-25** House received Senate message
+- **2026-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-25** Reference dispensed
+- **2026-02-25** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 216) `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-02-27** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-02** House Message received
+- **2026-03-03** To Governor 3/3/2026 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-03** To Governor 3/3/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/9/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/9/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 112, 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/333d5e88-9eb9-4aab-b615-4c6b57d162d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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