---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Design-Build Pilot Program"
description: "Administration of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Design-Build Pilot Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2942"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2942 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Street"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/defa5b5b-28ed-4742-b400-d5959c2f5ee5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2942&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d9f92d91fd01a57808d60afd95c3454396b7937e82d4c1bb8fa17f0531481d76"
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 2942 (2025) — Administration of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Design-Build Pilot Program

## 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=hb2942%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2942)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2942%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2942)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2942%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2942)
4. **hb2942 s eim am 3-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2942%20s%20eim%20am%203-17%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2942 s eim amt 3-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2942%20s%20eim%20amt%203-18%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Street — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-25** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-25** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-04** Do pass
- **2025-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 42) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Finance
- **2025-03-11** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-03-18** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-18** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-08** Laid over on 2nd reading 4/8/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 436) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 604)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - 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`
- **2025-07-21** Chapter 4, 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/defa5b5b-28ed-4742-b400-d5959c2f5ee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).