---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution"
description: "Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2024"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2024 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e513a7b-0002-4285-8d3b-c89cf343bda0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2024&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c98187b0260857875c6736ccb60111ab4fadcd14f08317ea238dc918f67ce4d8"
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 2024 (2023) — Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2024%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2024%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2024%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2024%20INTR.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2024)
5. **hb2024 hfa criss 3-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2024 hfa criss 3-4 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **hb2024 sfa tarr _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2024 sfa tarr _1 3-5 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-04** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2023-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 470) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 471) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 472) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 473) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 474) `amendment-failure`
- **2023-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 475) `passage`
- **2023-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 476)
- **2023-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2023-03-09** Deferred until conclusion of bills
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 485) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 485)
- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 623)
- **2023-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 624)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-16** Approved by Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 8, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e513a7b-0002-4285-8d3b-c89cf343bda0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).