---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term"
description: "Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3168"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3168 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3168&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3847e59e06540391ac416f3da26637780bd95766efb89a9920961e9baad1c5b9"
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 3168 (2023) — Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term

## 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=hb3168%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3168%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3168%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-31** To Economic Development and Tourism then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To House Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2023-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-14** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 173) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-20** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 464) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** To Governor 3/22/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 321, 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/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).