---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funding for failing public utilities"
description: "Funding for failing public utilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3179"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d6425f4-3ec4-43f5-8d0e-d44b9a9ea5a3"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3179&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "98db5ae84011a0c778a7beb95909f9e3dc5019c88067c313678a35f22875a2e6"
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 3179 (2025) — Funding for failing public utilities

## 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=hb3179%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3179)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3179%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3179)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3179%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3179)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3179%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3179)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kyle — primary (person)
- Cannon, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-06** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-09** To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 282) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-04-01** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **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** Laid over on 3rd reading 4/9/2025
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 441) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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 237, 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/4d6425f4-3ec4-43f5-8d0e-d44b9a9ea5a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).