---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax"
description: "Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2515"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2515 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/541ee40c-6bcc-4659-bfad-fa88d5858ff4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2515&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "879b12830e0c75ee2e42aa18e814fbbf49c10df43742faf87785f68f74b56353"
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 2515 (2019) — Exempting the sale and installation of mobility enhancing equipment from the sales and use tax

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2515%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2515)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2515%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2515)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-18** To Health and Human Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** With title amendment, do pass
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2019-02-20** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 225) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-22** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 377) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-18** To Governor 3/18/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/18/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 251, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/541ee40c-6bcc-4659-bfad-fa88d5858ff4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).