---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prequalifying consultants for WVDEP- Abandon Mine Lands"
description: "Prequalifying consultants for WVDEP- Abandon Mine Lands"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3429"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3429 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Riley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4052902a-f2fe-4158-8faf-c975429751e2"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3429&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "104f4d4f4b9711944276a4867811656bd5470a312fd3644cb56cbab7a64f39b1"
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 3429 (2025) — Prequalifying consultants for WVDEP- Abandon Mine Lands

## 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=hb3429%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3429)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3429%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3429)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3429%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3429)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3429%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3429)
5. **hb3429 s eim am _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3429%20s%20eim%20am%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb3429 s eim amt _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3429%20s%20eim%20amt%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Riley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-17** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** 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. 297) `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, with amendment and title amendment `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`
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 414) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** 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. 601)
- **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`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 117, 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/4052902a-f2fe-4158-8faf-c975429751e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).