---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2233"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2233 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2233&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0949797dafc9e1a5ef479d082543fe84351357ba71e8029fefea7f41faa00a40"
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 2233 (2025) — Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules

## 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=hb2233%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2233%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2233)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **82–14** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **86–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smith, D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-07** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-11** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 62) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 63)
- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 310) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 311)
- **2025-04-04** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).