---
type: "Bill"
title: "Updating certain definitions and terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act"
description: "Updating certain definitions and terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 693"
citation: "West Virginia SB 693 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/730eea1b-ba01-4a7f-8009-e81339f91092"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=693&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d21bcf0ea3d4303e161d907646beafb32449e0be52e041c3df8bff090e0af6f8"
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 693 (2021) — Updating certain definitions and terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act

## 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=SB693%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=693)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB693%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=693)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23** Immediate consideration
- **2021-03-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 171)
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 172) `passage`
- **2021-03-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 172)
- **2021-03-23** Ordered to House
- **2021-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Do pass
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-02** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 417)
- **2021-04-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-02** Passed House (Roll No. 418) `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 419)
- **2021-04-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-02** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-05** House Message received
- **2021-04-06** To Governor 4/6/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-06** To Governor 4/6/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13** Approved by Governor 4/13/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 255, 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/730eea1b-ba01-4a7f-8009-e81339f91092`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).