---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to persons filing federal bankruptcy petition to exempt certain property of the estate"
description: "Relating to persons filing federal bankruptcy petition to exempt certain property of the estate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2730"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2730 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-24"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ef74eb4-95e8-4257-a5fd-f91544c28b32"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2730&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "961c6a1f7c3421bbd6b258d7f6b9be4a5163e907623840ea1823077b28b317e8"
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 2730 (2021) — Relating to persons filing federal bankruptcy petition to exempt certain property of the estate

## 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=HB2730%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2730)
2. **HB2730 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2730 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2730 S JUD AMT _1 4-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2730 S JUD AMT _1 4-5 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2730%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2730)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Do pass
- **2021-03-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 352) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-04-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2021-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 377) `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 535)
- **2021-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-09** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 46, 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/7ef74eb4-95e8-4257-a5fd-f91544c28b32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).