---
type: "Bill"
title: "To encourage economic development regarding rare earth elements and critical minerals, as defined, by providing temporary severance tax relief"
description: "To encourage economic development regarding rare earth elements and critical minerals, as defined, by providing temporary severance tax relief"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3012"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3012 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f9c7bcb-b6d2-47f9-a81d-89d992b9d087"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3012&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "04cab3e7c80632380307449ccdce6ff800fdb18d731ae696727d86443ac50f36"
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 3012 (2023) — To encourage economic development regarding rare earth elements and critical minerals, as defined, by providing temporary severance tax relief

## 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=hb3012%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3012)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3012%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3012)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3012%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3012)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Foggin — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Rowe — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-24** To Energy and Manufacturing then Finance
- **2023-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-24** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2023-02-03** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-14** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 172) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-17** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-17** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 431) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Became law 3/29/2023
- **2023-03-11** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2023-03-11** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 318, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f9c7bcb-b6d2-47f9-a81d-89d992b9d087`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).