republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/hb-2848.md

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Bill	Water and Sewer Operator licensing reciprocity	Water and Sewer Operator licensing reciprocity	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	HB 2848	West Virginia HB 2848 (2023)	bill	Boards and Commissions Utilities	enacted	Riley	3	36	1	2023-01-20	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/96203b11-e634-4c28-b911-9510894d03ac	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2848&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	a39091084a72225bde6a5b4f1eec090111d93bb6ff429b99c5cc3d424b2361e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2848 (2023) — Water and Sewer Operator licensing reciprocity

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 — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Riley — primary (person)
• Adkins — cosponsor (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Cannon — cosponsor (person)
• Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
• Hall, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Linville — cosponsor (person)
• Maynor — cosponsor (person)
• Westfall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-20 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-20 To Technology and Infrastructure then Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2023-01-20 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-20 To House Technology and Infrastructure referral-committee
• 2023-01-26 With amendment, do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources committee-passage
• 2023-01-26 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2023-02-15 By substitute, do pass
• 2023-02-16 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-02-17 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-02-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-02-20 Passed House (Roll No. 184) passage
• 2023-02-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-02-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2023-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2023-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-03-06 On 2nd reading
• 2023-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-03-07 On 3rd reading
• 2023-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-03-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 404) passage
• 2023-03-07 Communicated to House
• 2023-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-16 To Governor 3/16/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-23 Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 262, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96203b11-e634-4c28-b911-9510894d03ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).