republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/hb-3042.md

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Bill	Relating to forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion	Relating to forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	HB 3042	West Virginia HB 3042 (2023)	bill	Human Rights	enacted	Pinson	3	36	1	2023-01-25	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e5b646da-6fb0-41af-a8be-9cdeed716afc	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3042&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	a88b98b05c7be4e9b201ef6f2dcc2fa920f14958dd3e48f6376a3ac9fb32fd67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3042 (2023) — Relating to forbidding excessive government limitations on exercise of religion

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 — 30–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pinson — primary (person)
• Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
• Crouse — cosponsor (person)
• Fast — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Kirby — cosponsor (person)
• Mallow — cosponsor (person)
• Martin — cosponsor (person)
• Pritt, C. — cosponsor (person)
• Ridenour — cosponsor (person)
• Worrell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-25 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-01-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-25 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-02-23 By substitute, do pass
• 2023-02-24 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-24 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-02-25 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-02-25 Amendments pending
• 2023-02-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-27 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2023-02-27 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 294) amendment-failure
• 2023-02-27 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2023-02-27 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2023-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-02-27 Passed House (Roll No. 295) passage
• 2023-02-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-02-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-02-28 Committee reference dispensed
• 2023-02-28 Immediate consideration
• 2023-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-02-28 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 325)
• 2023-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-02-28 Passed Senate (Roll No. 326) passage
• 2023-02-28 Communicated to House
• 2023-02-28 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-01 House received Senate message
• 2023-03-03 To Governor 3/3/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-03 To Governor 3/3/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-03 To Governor 3/3/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/9/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/9/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 295, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5b646da-6fb0-41af-a8be-9cdeed716afc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).