---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund"
description: "Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2915"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2915 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b99df08-8b86-428b-aa93-68519203d67c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2915&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fd93490079e0f85b3ee48973b7f378dc192913719cce448dbfc55e9fe32ea71b"
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 2915 (2023) — Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund

## 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=hb2915%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2915)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2915%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2915)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-23** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Do pass
- **2023-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-25** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-25** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 329) `passage`
- **2023-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 330)
- **2023-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 408) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 408)
- **2023-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/15/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2023 `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 19, 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/1b99df08-8b86-428b-aa93-68519203d67c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).