---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects."
description: "Relating to creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2742"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2742 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Riley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b223e41b-3854-4468-80e8-cd42aeb8604f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2742&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7398913de20f24f62cf8ebe0ea309f3c4d0bb8c4f2d49140caeb7fb821c07c48"
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 2742 (2025) — Relating to creating limited waiver from certificate of public convenience and necessity requirement for certain water or sewer services projects.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2742%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2742)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2742%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2742)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2742%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2742)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Riley — primary (person)
- Cannon, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-21** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-21** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** Do pass
- **2025-03-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14** Passed House (Roll No. 91) `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 432) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 433)
- **2025-04-10** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2025-04-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-11** House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 556)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate 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`
- **2025-08-05** Chapter 209, 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/b223e41b-3854-4468-80e8-cd42aeb8604f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).