---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to exempting social security benefits from personal income tax"
description: "Relating to exempting social security benefits from personal income tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2001"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2001 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harshbarger"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74b27a2b-ab34-4f8e-9626-f6188023c63a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2001&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c2890fab6c7527bc7023ef1c0c365ea9f1d70f54e5ecb9c739805b848414ac9c"
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 2001 (2019) — Relating to exempting social security benefits from personal income tax

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2001%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2001)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2001%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2001)
3. **HB2001 S FIN AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2001 S FIN AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2001%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2001)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **15–81** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDS. — **53–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harshbarger — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, P. — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-01-30** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 61) `passage`
- **2019-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-04** House Message received
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 393) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** Motion for previous question rejected (Roll No. 674)
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment (Roll No. 675)
- **2019-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 676) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 248, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74b27a2b-ab34-4f8e-9626-f6188023c63a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).