---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act"
description: "Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4421"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4421 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Householder"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-20"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cd1c582-6b6e-41df-b2de-a7d569c3dcca"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4421&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2771409041292f904ca8fe2284cb4a0de45d49ccf2e1ae9eb22303436f4bd259"
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 4421 (2020) — Natural Gas Liquids Economic Development Act

## 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=HB4421%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4421)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4421%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4421)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4421%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4421)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **85–14** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **27–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Householder — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-20** To Energy then Finance
- **2020-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-20** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 314) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 460) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **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 334, 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/3cd1c582-6b6e-41df-b2de-a7d569c3dcca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).