---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Farm-To-Food Bank Tax Credit"
description: "Relating to the Farm-To-Food Bank Tax Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 2149"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2149 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lovejoy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04015e8f-082d-4773-a35c-a4bd41822a59"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2149&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "27ade164da70599e404d96260f0d0b087a2ff287f6ac5d90610febccc04c7044"
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 2149 (2020) — Relating to the Farm-To-Food Bank Tax Credit

## 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=HB2149%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2149)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2149%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2149)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2149%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2149)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lovejoy — primary (person)
- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 306) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 363) `passage`
- **2020-02-29** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-29** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 330, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04015e8f-082d-4773-a35c-a4bd41822a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).