---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act"
description: "Administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3030"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3030 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fehrenbacher"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28311076-4a8a-4c6b-ae85-b42bf2c16c7c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3030&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "af270b9bc0e6dea00c209a0e020f7ab093e1209b3e5f744a2cdaf239fbbca47f"
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 3030 (2025) — Administration of the West Virginia Water Pollution Control 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=hb3030%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3030)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3030%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3030)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3030%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3030)
4. **hb3030 s eim am 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3030%20s%20eim%20am%204-1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **77–14** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **84–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-28** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-28** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-07** 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`
- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-03-13** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Laid over on 2nd reading 4/3/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 332) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 411)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **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`
- **2025-07-21** Chapter 6, 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/28311076-4a8a-4c6b-ae85-b42bf2c16c7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).