---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to granting in-state resident status to economic development participants"
description: "Relating to granting in-state resident status to economic development participants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4305"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4305 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f90e4ab8-3008-4ae8-b9ee-88b262394353"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4305&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "aa8f581132033828291cfeb936bcb2a9c46b5139b7c9f6171841d5e5bdfc8ba2"
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 4305 (2024) — Relating to granting in-state resident status to economic development participants

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4305%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4305)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4305%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4305)
3. **hb4305 s fin am _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4305%20s%20fin%20am%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **87–7** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **85–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Statler — primary (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-10** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-02** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Do pass
- **2024-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 346) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 404) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 698)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 501)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 158, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f90e4ab8-3008-4ae8-b9ee-88b262394353`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).