---
type: "Bill"
title: "To permit a fairness hearing exemption to the registration requirements of the Uniform Securities Act."
description: "To permit a fairness hearing exemption to the registration requirements of the Uniform Securities Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2889"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2889 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 42
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3970c98f-617c-4c9c-aff2-fb507354026b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2889&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "26951f6b144767705ff50ee8ffb337380fdf24905f67e27f0e4550eaa0f9db08"
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 2889 (2025) — To permit a fairness hearing exemption to the registration requirements of the Uniform Securities Act.

## 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=hb2889%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2889)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2889%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2889)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2889%20sub2%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2889)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2889%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2889)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2889%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2889)
6. **hb2889 s b_i am _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2889%20s%20b_i%20am%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2889 s bnk amt _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2889%20s%20bnk%20amt%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **90–6** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed House (Roll No. 214) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-29** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-29** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 397) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 398)
- **2025-04-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 455)
- **2025-04-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 456)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** 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`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 218, 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/3970c98f-617c-4c9c-aff2-fb507354026b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).