---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2006"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2006 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d11768f-8b43-4427-ba1e-c8522cbb26e9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2006&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "55336045253f7ab8bfaab8f3d7ceac745ff804cdd2a7fa7d2132b3a42fce51d4"
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 2006 (2021) — Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act

## 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=HB2006%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2006%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2006)
3. **HB2006 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2006 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2006 S GOV AMT _1 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2006 S GOV AMT _1 3-8 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2006 SFA _1 MAYNARD 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2006 SFA _1 MAYNARD 3-10 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2006%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2006)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 8) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 16) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-02-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-17** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-12** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-12** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/12/21
- **2021-03-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-15** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2021-03-15** Maynard Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-15** Jeffries Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-15** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-16** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-03-17** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-17** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 173)
- **2021-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-17** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-18** House Message received
- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-22** To Governor 3/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 - House Journal
- **2021-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 202, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d11768f-8b43-4427-ba1e-c8522cbb26e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).