---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3428"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3428 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/156e1814-6f5b-43b8-92fc-6a466cb39902"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3428&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "896a2cd5f4b515fd5262f462374ca06c891674a484c31815406dee85ee0b4b79"
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 3428 (2023) — Relating to the West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program

## 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=hb3428%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3428)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3428%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3428)
3. **hb3428 s ecd am _1 2-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3428 s ecd am _1 2-21 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-13** To Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** To House Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Do pass
- **2023-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-21** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-27** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 307) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 307)
- **2023-02-27** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 409)
- **2023-03-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 410)
- **2023-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-03** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** To Governor 3/13/2023 `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 294, 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/156e1814-6f5b-43b8-92fc-6a466cb39902`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).