---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants"
description: "Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 542"
citation: "West Virginia SB 542 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillips"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-03"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a0937a6-0713-4d70-b17f-1f40ca372e94"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=542&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3d7b569c9e9b03c375cfbdfded3ca26086a51f7b55c21f793ffdcf5355810d9a"
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 542 (2021) — Relating generally to public electric utilities and facilities fuel supply for existing coal-fired plants

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No. 558)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2021/RS/votes/house/00558.pdf)
2. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
3. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB2.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB542%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=542)
6. **SB542 HFA EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB542 HFA EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm)
7. **SB542 HFAT EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB542 HFAT EVANS 4-8 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Phillips — primary (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-03** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary
- **2021-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2021-03-11** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2021-03-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-29** Immediate consideration
- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 266) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Ordered to House
- **2021-04-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-04-01** To Energy and Manufacturing
- **2021-04-01** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** Do pass
- **2021-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Amendment pending
- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-09** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2021-04-09** Amendment adopted (Roll No. 558)
- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 559) `passage`
- **2021-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** Senate refused to concur and requested House to recede (Roll No. 442)
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** House receded (Roll No. 627)
- **2021-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 628) `passage`
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-16** To Governor 4/16/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 110, 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/0a0937a6-0713-4d70-b17f-1f40ca372e94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).