---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location"
description: "Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3144"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-04"
last_action: "2025-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f671338-58a0-450c-a6ef-920d815241b2"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3144&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4deff107cd1c57178febb58ba92999def99c0ad050a778885313d3bd15e6f49c"
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 3144 (2025) — Wireless Infrastructure and Facilities Siting and Co-location

## 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=hb3144%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3144%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3144)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-04** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-04** 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** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/20/2025
- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/21/2025
- **2025-03-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/24/2025
- **2025-03-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-24** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Passed House (Roll No. 186) `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 440) `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** 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`
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2025-04-30** Became law 4/30/2025
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2025-07-23** Chapter 42, 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/6f671338-58a0-450c-a6ef-920d815241b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).