---
type: "Bill"
title: "West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program"
description: "West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20191S"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "West Virginia HB 144 (20191S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-06-17"
last_action: "2019-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2df7ed0-40c8-4ef1-85a8-7ce8a7048562"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=144&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c7815b908c66b47b146ae8010811dd846fd514d8107362351d946e46b1dca681"
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 144 (20191S) — West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb144%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=144)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb144%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=144)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb144%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=144)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **80–15** (pass) · lower
- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **19–75** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA DOYLE ET AL #2 3-19 — **30–65** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-06-17** Immediate consideration
- **2019-06-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-06-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-06-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-18** Amendments pending
- **2019-06-19** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2019-06-19** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2019-06-19** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-06-19** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-19** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 854) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-06-19** Motion Previous Question Rejected (Roll No. 855)
- **2019-06-19** Passed House (Roll No. 856) `passage`
- **2019-06-19** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-06-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-06-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-06-24** Immediate consideration
- **2019-06-24** Committee reference dispensed
- **2019-06-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-06-24** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 72)
- **2019-06-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-06-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2019-06-24** Communicated to House
- **2019-06-24** Completed legislative action
- **2019-06-28** To Governor 6/28/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-23** To Governor 6/28/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-28** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-23** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-10-01** Chapter 40, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2df7ed0-40c8-4ef1-85a8-7ce8a7048562`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).