---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the administration of the A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan"
description: "Relating to the administration of the A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5006"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5006 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59eeea06-640b-454a-a75a-2a08f57fc041"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5006&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "45fd81be44c9703fc2a1185cc0f0034a98e8a6ecaadbad039fa48023a09be32e"
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 5006 (2024) — Relating to the administration of the A. James Manchin Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan

## 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=hb5006%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5006)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5006%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5006)
3. **hb5006 hfat anderson _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5006%20hfat%20anderson%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-23** To Energy and Manufacturing
- **2024-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-23** To House Energy and Manufacturing `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Do pass
- **2024-02-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 95) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-06** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2024-02-06** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2024-02-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 169) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-19** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-29** To Governor 2/29/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 2/29/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 2/29/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 131, 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/59eeea06-640b-454a-a75a-2a08f57fc041`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).