---
type: "Bill"
title: "To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration"
description: "To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4491"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4491 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62d0ac7e-5a35-4e1c-afa3-3faad10ec7c5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4491&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "963f10eb735724beba534345197dead5dbb192073688e9c16f3e69b00f852694"
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 4491 (2022) — To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration

## 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=HB4491%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4491)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4491%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4491)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4491%20intr.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4491)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-01** To Energy and Manufacturing then Judiciary
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-23** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 241) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-25** Immediate consideration
- **2022-02-25** Committee reference dispensed
- **2022-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 254) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 128, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62d0ac7e-5a35-4e1c-afa3-3faad10ec7c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).