---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preventing proposing or enforcing rules that prevent recreational water facilities from making necessary upgrades"
description: "Preventing proposing or enforcing rules that prevent recreational water facilities from making necessary upgrades"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2490"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2490 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a505704-d8ca-4e77-8dd3-121ce6c866e1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2490&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "49a7c8ee5579f5ee8605971e977832f66565fd5f1dc746d8c202190a380b5fae"
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 2490 (2019) — Preventing proposing or enforcing rules that prevent recreational water facilities from making necessary upgrades

## 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=HB2490%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2490)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2490%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2490)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2490%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2490)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Staggers — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Passed House (Roll No. 85) `passage`
- **2019-02-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-07** House Message received
- **2019-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 513) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 213, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a505704-d8ca-4e77-8dd3-121ce6c866e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).