---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Jobs Act"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Jobs Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20172S"
identifier: "HB 205"
citation: "West Virginia HB 205 (20172S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By", "Labor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mr. Speaker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-10-17"
last_action: "2017-11-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cee7c24c-565c-44b5-8125-08ed5edcca0f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=205&year=2017&sessiontype=2X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "19e240b678432632a5ef3f40df54f57d3cd53956fb08c37ee0bc72f6ffb762e6"
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 205 (20172S) — Relating to the West Virginia Jobs 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=hb205%20ENR.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=2X&i=205)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb205%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=2X&i=205)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · legislature
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mr. Speaker — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-10-17** Reference dispensed
- **2017-10-17** Immediate consideration
- **2017-10-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2017-10-17** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 694)
- **2017-10-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2017-10-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2017-10-17** Passed House (Roll No. 695) `passage`
- **2017-10-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 696)
- **2017-10-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2017-10-17** House Message received
- **2017-10-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-10-17** Immediate consideration
- **2017-10-17** Committee reference dispensed
- **2017-10-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2017-10-17** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 12)
- **2017-10-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2017-10-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2017-10-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 13) `passage`
- **2017-10-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 13)
- **2017-10-17** Communicated to House
- **2017-10-17** Completed legislative action
- **2017-10-17** House received Senate message
- **2017-11-13** To Governor 10/20/17 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2017-10-20** To Governor 10/20/17 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-11-13** Approved by Governor 10/24/17 - Senate Journal
- **2017-10-24** Approved by Governor 10/24/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-25** Chapter 3, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cee7c24c-565c-44b5-8125-08ed5edcca0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).