---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing the sunset clause from Oil and Gas Personal Property Tax"
description: "Removing the sunset clause from Oil and Gas Personal Property Tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4850"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4850 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8866f16c-1bf3-40e6-bec9-c5e3a8826c4c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4850&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6af6a70068a6f9265e28ffc41984adecb96d0cb8ed84a09e053ac450c9fd9091"
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 4850 (2024) — Removing the sunset clause from Oil and Gas Personal Property Tax

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4850%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4850)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4850%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4850)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4850%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4850)

## Votes

- Passage — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **71–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-17** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/19/2024
- **2024-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 216) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** Floor amendment rejected (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 230) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-23** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-26** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 257, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8866f16c-1bf3-40e6-bec9-c5e3a8826c4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).