republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/hb-3168.md

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Bill	Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term	Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	HB 3168	West Virginia HB 3168 (2023)	bill	Economic Development	enacted	Criss	3	37	1	2023-01-31	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3168&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3847e59e06540391ac416f3da26637780bd95766efb89a9920961e9baad1c5b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3168 (2023) — Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term

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

• Criss — primary (person)
• Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Riley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-31 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-31 To Economic Development and Tourism then Finance referral-committee
• 2023-01-31 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-31 To House Economic Development and Tourism referral-committee
• 2023-02-08 Do pass, but first to Finance
• 2023-02-08 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2023-02-14 By substitute, do pass
• 2023-02-14 Immediate consideration
• 2023-02-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-02-15 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-02-16 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-02-16 Passed House (Roll No. 173) passage
• 2023-02-16 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-02-20 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-02-20 To Economic Development then Finance referral-committee
• 2023-02-20 To Economic Development referral-committee
• 2023-03-01 Reported do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2023-03-01 To Finance referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2023-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-03-08 On 2nd reading
• 2023-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-03-09 On 3rd reading
• 2023-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-03-09 Passed Senate (Roll No. 464) passage
• 2023-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2023-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/22/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 To Governor 3/22/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-22 To Governor 3/22/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-29 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 321, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).