republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/20191s/hb-207.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants	Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	20191S	HB 207	West Virginia HB 207 (20191S)	bill	Taxation	enacted	Hanshaw	3	31	3	2019-07-22	2019-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ace5a540-9f45-4eef-bbf9-e7ad121558c7	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=207&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill	d332081fce13d4d6e4503a9e2ac636c0e33d595c3f2c0a5b22f2554bf0f946fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 207 (20191S) — Exempting from business and occupation tax certain merchant power plants

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — 76–7 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 77–5 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 28–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hanshaw — primary (person)
• Miley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-07-22 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-07-22 To Finance referral-committee
• 2019-07-22 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-07-22 Immediate consideration
• 2019-07-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-07-22 Committed to Finance on 2nd reading
• 2019-07-23 Do pass
• 2019-07-23 Immediate consideration
• 2019-07-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-07-23 Amendment adopted (Division)
• 2019-07-23 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2019-07-23 Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 917)
• 2019-07-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-07-23 Passed House (Roll No. 918) passage
• 2019-07-23 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-07-23 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-07-23 Immediate consideration
• 2019-07-23 Committee reference dispensed
• 2019-07-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-07-23 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 111)
• 2019-07-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-07-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-07-23 Passed Senate (Roll No. 112) passage
• 2019-07-23 Communicated to House
• 2019-07-23 Completed legislative action
• 2019-07-24 To Governor 7/24/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-09-23 To Governor 7/24/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-07-30 Approved by Governor 7/30/19 executive-signature
• 2019-07-23 Approved by Governor 7/30/19 - House Journal
• 2019-09-23 Approved by Governor 7/30/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-10-01 Chapter 46, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ace5a540-9f45-4eef-bbf9-e7ad121558c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).