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type: "Bill"
title: "Updating the West Virginia Business Corporations Act"
description: "Updating the West Virginia Business Corporations Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 3081"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3081 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-12"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64135aa9-841d-461f-bd87-789d80085aab"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3081&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c9eb90ffb676cf6558f735d6908358645865b19ceb4c5296411a4f75c720105b"
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 3081 (2021) — Updating the West Virginia Business Corporations Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3081%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3081)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3081%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3081)
## Votes
- Passage — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Westfall — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Rowe — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-12** Originating in House Banking and Insurance
- **2021-03-12** Do pass
- **2021-03-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 180) `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 181)
- **2021-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-01** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-02** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 297) `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 297)
- **2021-04-02** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-02** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-05** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 65, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64135aa9-841d-461f-bd87-789d80085aab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).