---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making permanent land reuse agency or municipal land bank's right of first refusal on certain tax sale properties"
description: "Making permanent land reuse agency or municipal land bank's right of first refusal on certain tax sale properties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 510"
citation: "West Virginia SB 510 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Palumbo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29141b23-ef03-48dc-897c-d52541900491"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=510&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "eb29d3defefa238fd87d63b9dce4d76a12b9bdb1270e741d7fc6908505ff1846"
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 SB 510 (2020) — Making permanent land reuse agency or municipal land bank's right of first refusal on certain tax sale properties

## 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=SB510%20enr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=510)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB510%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=510)
3. **SB510 HFA COWLES AND ROHRBACH 9-2 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB510 HFA COWLES AND ROHRBACH 9-2 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **SB510 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB510 HFAT SHOTT 3-4 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **83–17** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA PORTERFIELD 3-4 #1 REV. — **20–71** (fail) · lower
- HFA PORTERFIELD 3-4 #2 — **15–77** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Palumbo — primary (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-16** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 62) `passage`
- **2020-02-04** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Do pass
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment to amendment rejected (Roll No. 524)
- **2020-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 525) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 567) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 584)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-18** To Governor 3/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 139, 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/29141b23-ef03-48dc-897c-d52541900491`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).