republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4971.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to Critical Materials Manufacturing Tax	Relating to Critical Materials Manufacturing Tax	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4971	West Virginia HB 4971 (2024)	bill	Taxation	enacted	Criss	5	40	4	2024-01-22	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/cf069ee9-734f-4792-b042-c7902bfbc701	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4971&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	83acfcf235f8394f18d53a8fc62557057b581ca96005bc3fe89e5e709ed10705	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4971 (2024) — Relating to Critical Materials Manufacturing Tax

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
4. hb4971 s fin am _1 3-1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb4971 s fin amt _1 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 94–3 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT July 01, 2025 — 96–1 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 96–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Criss — primary (person)
• Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
• Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Hott — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-22 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-22 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-16 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-19 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed House (Roll No. 232) passage
• 2024-02-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-21 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-05 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-06 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 385) passage
• 2024-03-06 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 385)
• 2024-03-06 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 514)
• 2024-03-07 Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 515)
• 2024-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-08 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 259, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf069ee9-734f-4792-b042-c7902bfbc701. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).