---
type: "Bill"
title: "Well Plugging methods"
description: "Well Plugging methods"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3336"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3336 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zatezalo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5c399e9-7675-450f-b7b0-c5ab0784054d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3336&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "53408800b92b1f18a5db4c028d6c5421413eae23ef8391e8ab3956949d8e8ae6"
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 3336 (2025) — Well Plugging methods

## 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=hb3336%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3336)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3336%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3336)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3336%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3336)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3336%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3336)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-13** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 175) `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-25** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Judiciary
- **2025-03-25** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 496) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 116, 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/c5c399e9-7675-450f-b7b0-c5ab0784054d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).