republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2020/sb-793.md

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Bill	Relating to business and occupation taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units	Relating to business and occupation taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2020	SB 793	West Virginia SB 793 (2020)	bill	Taxation	enacted	Smith	3	37	3	2020-02-14	2020-04-14	openstates	ocd-bill/462ad9b7-f479-422f-b98b-f08f517aa8d9	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=793&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	6fc6ce77d7fbd210b5127af3173a8f139136ce8d058bf179d6b8003a1fbc6cf6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 793 (2020) — Relating to business and occupation taxes imposed on certain coal-fired electric generating units

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 78–21 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 80–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smith — primary (person)
• Cline — cosponsor (person)
• Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-14 Filed for introduction filing
• 2020-02-14 To Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2020-02-14 To Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Committee substitute reported
• 2020-02-21 On 1st reading
• 2020-02-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-02-24 On 2nd reading
• 2020-02-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-25 On 3rd reading
• 2020-02-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-25 Passed Senate (Roll No. 261) passage
• 2020-02-25 Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 261)
• 2020-02-25 Ordered to House
• 2020-02-26 Introduced in House introduction
• 2020-02-26 To Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2020-03-02 Do pass
• 2020-03-03 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-03-04 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 585) passage
• 2020-03-05 House reconsidered its action
• 2020-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 586) passage
• 2020-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2020-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2020-03-06 House Message received
• 2020-03-18 To Governor 3/18/20 executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/18/20 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/18/20 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-25 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 executive-signature
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
• 2020-04-14 Chapter 328, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/462ad9b7-f479-422f-b98b-f08f517aa8d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).