---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing tax incentive for new business activity in qualified opportunity zones"
description: "Establishing tax incentive for new business activity in qualified opportunity zones"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20191S"
identifier: "HB 113"
citation: "West Virginia HB 113 (20191S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-05-20"
last_action: "2019-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e259b90-3594-4e7b-9d05-4cfcfeb79466"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=113&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ebc26591d787426b26e81394d212c5f1092c9ec12f77b608cc603b1b9f57ee1c"
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 113 (20191S) — Establishing tax incentive for new business activity in qualified opportunity zones

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb113%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=113)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb113%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=113)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb113%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=113)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **87–10** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **73–25** (fail) · lower
- HFA PUSHKIN ET AL 6-17 — **42–54** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Constitutional Rule Suspension Rejected (Roll No. 767)
- **2019-06-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-06-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-17** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-06-17** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-17** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 824) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-06-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-06-18** Passed House (Roll No. 851) `passage`
- **2019-06-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-06-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-06-24** Immediate consideration
- **2019-06-24** Committee reference dispensed
- **2019-06-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-06-24** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 68)
- **2019-06-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-06-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 69) `passage`
- **2019-06-24** Communicated to House
- **2019-06-24** Completed legislative action
- **2019-06-28** To Governor 6/28/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-23** To Governor 3/28/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-28** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-23** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-10-01** Chapter 45, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e259b90-3594-4e7b-9d05-4cfcfeb79466`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).