---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce, Development Office"
description: "Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce, Development Office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 3135"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3135 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/998a7800-1941-4a80-adc4-d61d378f6e89"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3135&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a587e3a69f0b90056800dd2c843020c4cf9743510c62e7502d8ff6e7bd1f1cf1"
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 3135 (2019) — Expiring funds to the balance of the Department of Commerce, Development Office

## 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=HB3135%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3135)
2. **HB3135 S FIN AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB3135 S FIN AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3135%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3135)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Cowles — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Longstreth — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Rowe — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** Originating in House Finance
- **2019-02-20** Do pass
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 298) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 299)
- **2019-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-26** House Message received
- **2019-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 403) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 403)
- **2019-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 565)
- **2019-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 566)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/13/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/13/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-13** To Governor 3/13/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/14/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/14/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/14/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 36, 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/998a7800-1941-4a80-adc4-d61d378f6e89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).