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type: "Bill"
title: "Allocating percentage of county excise taxes for funding improvements to election administration"
description: "Allocating percentage of county excise taxes for funding improvements to election administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 522"
citation: "West Virginia SB 522 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4a9a766-9be3-4e14-8b7b-0ba43e84925c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=522&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "df946b15c4131c23b10bb9b402a01ad8c798fe09b94c152d84d85d41e2ed8b91"
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 522 (2023) — Allocating percentage of county excise taxes for funding improvements to election administration
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb522%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=522)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb522%20sub2.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=522)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb522%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=522)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb522%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=522)
5. **sb522 h fin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb522 h fin am _1 adopted.htm)
6. **sb522 h fin amt adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb522 h fin amt adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tarr — primary (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-24** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 289) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 670) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 580)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 309, 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/e4a9a766-9be3-4e14-8b7b-0ba43e84925c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).