---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021"
description: "Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "West Virginia SB 42 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Real and Personal Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woelfel"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ef15ee3-32b8-44f7-8196-967bfd57857e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=42&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5b0c40b056061f6da454bf36e086bcf8dc550e66e2f50527e5db0b95e16c66ce"
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 SB 42 (2021) — Creating Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021

## 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=SB42%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20SUB1%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB42%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=42)
5. **SB42 SFA SWOPE 2-23 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB42 SFA SWOPE 2-23 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **SB42 SFAT _1 SWOPE 2-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB42 SFAT _1 SWOPE 2-23 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Woelfel — primary (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** Committee substitute reported
- **2021-02-22** On 1st reading
- **2021-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2021-02-23** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/23/21
- **2021-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-24** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2021-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-25** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 38) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Ordered to House
- **2021-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-26** To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Judiciary
- **2021-02-26** To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2021-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Do pass
- **2021-03-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** Passed House (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-18** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-19** House Message received
- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/23/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-25** To Governor 3/23/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/29/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 68, 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/6ef15ee3-32b8-44f7-8196-967bfd57857e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).