republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5268.md

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Bill	Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells	Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5268	West Virginia HB 5268 (2024)	bill	Energy Environment	enacted	Anderson	2	35	2	2024-01-29	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5a251fa7-c208-44ff-9ebf-f5a22a687eac	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5268&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	281bcd127f93688e4d85eb31216d63de71c767277a361059f8c3900ec5335558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5268 (2024) — Relating to the enhanced recovery of oil and natural gas in horizontal wells

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 31–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
• Stephens — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-29 To Energy and Manufacturing
• 2024-01-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-29 To House Energy and Manufacturing referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Do pass
• 2024-02-08 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-12 Passed House (Roll No. 150) passage
• 2024-02-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-14 To Energy, Industry, and Mining
• 2024-02-14 To Energy, Industry, and Mining
• 2024-02-21 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 On 1st reading
• 2024-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-23 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-24 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 248) passage
• 2024-02-24 Senate reconsidered and passed bill (Roll No. 251)
• 2024-02-24 Communicated to House
• 2024-02-24 Completed legislative action
• 2024-02-26 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-06 To Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-07 To Governor 3/6/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-07 To Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 134, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a251fa7-c208-44ff-9ebf-f5a22a687eac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).