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type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing director of DNR to lease state-owned pore spaces in certain areas for carbon sequestration"
description: "Authorizing director of DNR to lease state-owned pore spaces in certain areas for carbon sequestration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 162"
citation: "West Virginia SB 162 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79787c51-ee1c-4e11-9899-3cfa069253ed"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=162&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fa1e350d6490e7c5deef6f4ec46721b5e735ad273856117ca8047b6747d6e748"
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 SB 162 (2023) — Authorizing director of DNR to lease state-owned pore spaces in certain areas for carbon sequestration
## 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=sb162%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=162)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb162%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=162)
3. **sb162 h jud am _1 1-16 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb162 h jud am _1 1-16 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blair — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Boley — cosponsor (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stover — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** Immediate consideration
- **2023-01-12** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-01-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-12** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 50)
- **2023-01-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 51) `passage`
- **2023-01-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 51)
- **2023-01-12** Ordered to House
- **2023-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-17** Immediate consideration
- **2023-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-18** Amendment pending
- **2023-01-19** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-19** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2023-01-19** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 11) `passage`
- **2023-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 12)
- **2023-01-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-01-20** House Message received
- **2023-01-20** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 56)
- **2023-01-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 56)
- **2023-01-20** Communicated to House
- **2023-01-20** Completed legislative action
- **2023-01-23** House received Senate message
- **2023-01-24** To Governor 1/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-01-25** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-01-23** To Governor 1/23/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-01-24** To Governor 1/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-01-24** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-01-25** Approved by Governor 1/24/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 218, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79787c51-ee1c-4e11-9899-3cfa069253ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).