---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds"
description: "Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3308"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3308 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc85c5c5-8f41-4764-9755-b8dd34a1e724"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3308&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b244a36401659bb0e5c9d218ecfc50d434df6924800ae87c60fd15f30650f150"
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 3308 (2023) — Authorizing PSC consider and issue financing orders to certain utilities to permit the recovery of certain costs through securitization via consumer rate relief bonds

## 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=hb3308%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3308%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3308%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3308)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-07** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** By substitute, 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. 159) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 160)
- **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`
- **2023-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-25** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 324) `passage`
- **2023-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 324)
- **2023-02-28** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-28** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-01** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/11/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 293, 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/cc85c5c5-8f41-4764-9755-b8dd34a1e724`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).