---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission"
description: "Establishing the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3307"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3307 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aac77c1d-b1ab-4caf-bce5-f4f7eeadc08d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3307&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1239339ad8f2132a09581e22658b56a90eb4565d719d646a05c03497211dd03c"
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 3307 (2023) — Establishing the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission

## 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=hb3307%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3307)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3307%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3307)
3. **hb3307 s ecd am _1 2-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3307 s ecd am _1 2-21 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-07** To Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-07** To House Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Do pass
- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 125) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-14** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-27** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 304) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Effective March 17, 2023 (Roll No. 304)
- **2023-02-27** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 407)
- **2023-03-02** Effective March 17, 2023 (Roll No. 408)
- **2023-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-03** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-17** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 170, 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/aac77c1d-b1ab-4caf-bce5-f4f7eeadc08d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).