---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Certified Sites and Development Readiness Program"
description: "Creating the Certified Sites and Development Readiness Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4822"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4822 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynor"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49b924e5-b0b2-43d0-8976-4e01290ee58e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4822&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b31119b44e512ff30470b62738080adeb3e71a2dec34ea9bf0e70817d9e48250"
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 4822 (2024) — Creating the Certified Sites and Development Readiness Program

## 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=hb4822%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4822)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4822%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4822)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **86–13** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynor — primary (person)
- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-16** To Economic Development and Tourism then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-16** To House Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Do pass
- **2024-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Immediate consideration
- **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. 357) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-05** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2024-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 407) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-07** 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 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 99, 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/49b924e5-b0b2-43d0-8976-4e01290ee58e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).