---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor"
description: "Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 3098"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3098 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Liquors and Beers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f0d8340-ea43-4e0f-8e5c-1d694776c3f5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3098&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "190505b319f7a54a95065f35066444b0d5e6643912060c226ad4e20f0e469e2a"
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 3098 (2020) — Allowing the same business owner to brew and sell beer to also distill and sell liquor

## 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=HB3098%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3098)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3098%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3098)
3. **HB3098 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB3098 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB3098 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB3098 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3098%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3098)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **86–10** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **83–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Lavender-Bowe — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 272) `passage`
- **2020-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 486) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 729)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f0d8340-ea43-4e0f-8e5c-1d694776c3f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).