republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2021/hb-2499.md

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Bill	Tax reduction for arms and ammo manufacturing	Tax reduction for arms and ammo manufacturing	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2021	HB 2499	West Virginia HB 2499 (2021)	bill	Taxation	enacted	Howell	4	40	1	2021-02-15	2021-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/d87d3cdd-a0f7-4d7c-9b0d-68f6b7582fe4	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2499&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	d2c11a174b0e98294e2feaad1450e7ad0976b31e51b366bb1a91996c7f952615	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2499 (2021) — Tax reduction for arms and ammo manufacturing

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. HB2499 S FIN AM _1 3-25 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2499 S FIN AM _1 3-25 adopted.htm)
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Howell — primary (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Linville — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)
• Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-15 Filed for introduction filing
• 2021-02-15 To Finance referral-committee
• 2021-02-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2021-02-15 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 By substitute, do pass
• 2021-03-17 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-17 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-18 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-19 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-19 Passed House (Roll No. 222) passage
• 2021-03-19 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-03-22 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2021-03-22 To Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 To Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Reported do pass, with amendments committee-passage
• 2021-03-27 On 1st reading
• 2021-03-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-29 On 2nd reading
• 2021-03-29 Laid over on 2nd reading 3/29/21
• 2021-03-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-30 Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2021-03-30 Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 259)
• 2021-03-31 On 3rd reading
• 2021-03-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-31 Passed Senate (Roll No. 287) passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate requests House to concur
• 2021-04-01 House received Senate message
• 2021-04-01 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 393)
• 2021-04-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-04-01 Completed legislative action
• 2021-04-02 House Message received
• 2021-04-02 To Governor 4/2/21 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-05 To Governor 4/2/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-02 To Governor 4/2/21 executive-receipt
• 2021-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/21 - Senate Journal
• 2021-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/21 - House Journal
• 2021-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/21 executive-signature
• 2021-05-20 Chapter 260, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d87d3cdd-a0f7-4d7c-9b0d-68f6b7582fe4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).