---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of the West Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Act"
description: "Administration of the West Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2943"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2943 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zatezalo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4c39db9-5d56-49ca-b091-9c90d32e7b70"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2943&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "413d8c7d780d234ea6b7ac01d82ae2516ca5c4446c78677a066c517fb69a706e"
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 2943 (2025) — Administration of the West Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Act

## 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=hb2943%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2943)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2943%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2943)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2943%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2943)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-25** To Energy and Public Works then Finance
- **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
- **2025-03-04** 2nd reference dispensed
- **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. 43) `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, 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** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 399) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - 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 5, 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/d4c39db9-5d56-49ca-b091-9c90d32e7b70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).