---
type: "Bill"
title: "To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses"
description: "To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2451"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2451 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 56
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-08-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2451&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d4c97563fe5cf93e208f0f8c660e0355722532689bbcee148d35bf225edf5419"
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 2451 (2025) — To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses

## 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=hb2451%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2451%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2451)
5. **Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/house/00590.pdf)
6. **hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfa%20kelly%20_1%204-12%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfa%20kelly%20_1%204-12%20adopted.htm)
8. **hb2451 hfat anderson 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20anderson%204-12%20adopted.htm)
9. **hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20kelly%204-12%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
10. **hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20hfat%20kelly%204-12%20adopted.htm)
11. **hb2451 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2451%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%204-9%20adopted.htm)
12. **hb2451 sfa queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20sfa%20queen%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)
13. **hb2451 sfat queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2451%20sfat%20queen%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–26** (pass) · lower
- TITLE AMENDMENT — **37–58** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **82–12** (pass) · lower
- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **59–35** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **28–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hornby — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Green — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** To House Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-06** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 121) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2025-04-10** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 515) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590)
- **2025-04-12** House Concur in Senate Amendment and Title Amendment rejected (Roll No. 591) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-12** House requests Senate to recede (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House reconsidered passage (Voice)
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 637)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 605)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-14** Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).