---
type: "Bill"
title: "Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage"
description: "Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5045"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5045 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6530214d-9e0f-4f23-b5fe-d656d95964e7"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5045&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7248c7621e91788211454d1ce320284307699a3b970fd530c8696e72b10e23cc"
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 5045 (2024) — Related to the administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act, and Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5045%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5045)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5045%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5045)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5045%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5045)
4. **hb5045 sfa smith _1 2-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5045%20sfa%20smith%20_1%202-8%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — 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** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-01** 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. 97) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-06** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-09** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 113) `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-13** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-13** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 157)
- **2024-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-14** House Message received
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 133, 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/6530214d-9e0f-4f23-b5fe-d656d95964e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).