republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4491.md

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Bill	To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration	To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4491	West Virginia HB 4491 (2022)	bill	Environment	enacted	Anderson	3	36	1	2022-02-01	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/62d0ac7e-5a35-4e1c-afa3-3faad10ec7c5	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4491&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	963f10eb735724beba534345197dead5dbb192073688e9c16f3e69b00f852694	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4491 (2022) — To establish requirements for carbon dioxide sequestration

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 — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)
• Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
• Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Holstein — cosponsor (person)
• Hott — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Wamsley — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-01 Filed for introduction filing
• 2022-02-01 To Energy and Manufacturing then Judiciary
• 2022-02-01 Introduced in House introduction
• 2022-02-01 To House Energy and Manufacturing referral-committee
• 2022-02-16 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2022-02-16 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-21 By substitute, do pass
• 2022-02-22 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-02-23 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-02-23 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2022-02-23 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2022-02-24 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-02-24 Passed House (Roll No. 241) passage
• 2022-02-24 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-02-25 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-02-25 Immediate consideration
• 2022-02-25 Committee reference dispensed
• 2022-02-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-02-28 On 2nd reading
• 2022-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 On 3rd reading
• 2022-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Passed Senate (Roll No. 254) passage
• 2022-03-01 Communicated to House
• 2022-03-01 Completed legislative action
• 2022-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-17 To Governor 3/17/22 executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
• 2022-03-30 Approved by Governor 3/30/22 executive-signature
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
• 2022-04-19 Chapter 128, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62d0ac7e-5a35-4e1c-afa3-3faad10ec7c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).