---
type: "Bill"
title: "Updating certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act"
description: "Updating certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 310"
citation: "West Virginia SB 310 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a3804c7-82fb-4cd2-b9a0-d27b0aff6f58"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=310&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2d03a9f63424c49504bc4e1ab78fa6e9d26c15cf87ab7293d118f9c2c838991a"
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 SB 310 (2020) — Updating certain terms used in WV Personal Income Tax Act

## 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=SB310%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=310)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB310%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=310)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-15** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-16** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-17** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 7) `passage`
- **2020-01-17** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 7)
- **2020-01-17** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Do pass
- **2020-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 187) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Effective from passage (Roll No. 188)
- **2020-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-17** House Message received
- **2020-02-17** Senate concurred in House changed effective date
- **2020-02-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 147)
- **2020-02-17** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-17** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-18** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-25** To Governor 2/25/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-26** To Governor 2/25/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-03** Approved by Governor 3/2/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 324, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a3804c7-82fb-4cd2-b9a0-d27b0aff6f58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).