---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to business and occupation or privilege tax"
description: "Relating to business and occupation or privilege tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4567"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4567 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dd09c76-ae63-4a59-83f2-94f91d4bcc3c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4567&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b6536c0a4a74e67d9cb57d73e0e05239157e1d27f657e64dbcac980d749e3291"
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 4567 (2022) — Relating to business and occupation or privilege tax

## 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=HB4567%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4567)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4567%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4567)
3. **HB4567 S FIN AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4567 S FIN AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4567 SFAT TARR _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4567 SFAT TARR _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4567%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4567)

## Votes

- Passage — **27–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Kimes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-07** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 203) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 399) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 542)
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 279, 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/5dd09c76-ae63-4a59-83f2-94f91d4bcc3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).