---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the termination of severance taxes on limestone and sandstone"
description: "Relating to the termination of severance taxes on limestone and sandstone"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2829"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2829 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dec05714-1277-4efc-b865-49527054ade0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2829&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "25f79ae41de527955283353873d5ec36d2309b9f9afadaacd461b1e1ad87be73"
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 2829 (2019) — Relating to the termination of severance taxes on limestone and sandstone

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2829%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2829)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2829%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2829)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **78–16** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **26–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Cowles — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Do pass
- **2019-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 267) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 307)
- **2019-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 308) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-08** To Governor 3/8/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 253, 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/dec05714-1277-4efc-b865-49527054ade0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).