---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts."
description: "Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3492"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3492 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc78de1a-dba1-4a21-9232-e56413297f34"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3492&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f2038eafb53498f9474789027a46bad143b950b1d6b21836190f796b05a20171"
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 3492 (2025) — Relating to municipal economic opportunity development districts.

## 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=hb3492%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3492%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3492%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3492)
4. **hb3492 s ecd am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3492%20s%20ecd%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb3492 s ecd amt _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3492%20s%20ecd%20amt%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **86–12** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **81–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Amos — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-18** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-18** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Do pass
- **2025-03-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-27** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2025-03-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Passed House (Roll No. 253) `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 507) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** 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. 581)
- **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`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 188, 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/fc78de1a-dba1-4a21-9232-e56413297f34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).