---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making a technical correction regarding an incorrect fund name and clarifying applicability to mine lands governed by SMCRA and the Abandoned Mine Lands Act"
description: "Making a technical correction regarding an incorrect fund name and clarifying applicability to mine lands governed by SMCRA and the Abandoned Mine Lands Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2839"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2839 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bb9a6d3-1d30-48fd-96f7-f9e5237e99a7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2839&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d837a1c40e4eb3b53df4241e096159652f0990ad9de45bb158e27eb4a11cc13c"
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 2839 (2023) — Making a technical correction regarding an incorrect fund name and clarifying applicability to mine lands governed by SMCRA and the Abandoned Mine Lands Act

## 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=hb2839%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2839)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2839%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2839)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
- Street — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-19** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-19** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Do pass
- **2023-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 153) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 362) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bb9a6d3-1d30-48fd-96f7-f9e5237e99a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).