---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reapportioning House of Delegates Districts"
description: "Reapportioning House of Delegates Districts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20213S"
identifier: "HB 301"
citation: "West Virginia HB 301 (20213S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-10-11"
last_action: "2021-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca1fa3d9-aa92-4c96-a443-b40506506115"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=301&year=2021&sessiontype=3X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bfea91249c48093dd140774f89a305b1be0b3dd88f7cb93512696fe7d58decb2"
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 301 (20213S) — Reapportioning House of Delegates Districts

## 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=HB301%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=301)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB301%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=301)

## Votes

- Passage — **28–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-11** Originating in House Select Committee on Redistricting
- **2021-10-11** Do pass
- **2021-10-11** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-10-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-12** Amendments pending
- **2021-10-13** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 752) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 753) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 754) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 755) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 756) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-10-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-13** Passed House (Roll No. 757) `passage`
- **2021-10-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-10-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-10-18** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-18** Committee reference dispensed
- **2021-10-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-18** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 43)
- **2021-10-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 44) `passage`
- **2021-10-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 44)
- **2021-10-18** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2021-10-20** House received Senate message
- **2021-10-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 836)
- **2021-10-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-10-20** House Message received
- **2021-10-20** Completed legislative action
- **2021-10-22** To Governor 10/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10-22-21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-22** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10-22-21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-11-02** Chapter 35, Acts, 3rd Extraordinary Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca1fa3d9-aa92-4c96-a443-b40506506115`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).