republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2233.md

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Bill	Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules	Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2233	West Virginia HB 2233 (2025)	bill	Legislature--Rule Making	enacted	Smith, D.	4	39	3	2025-02-12	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2233&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	0949797dafc9e1a5ef479d082543fe84351357ba71e8029fefea7f41faa00a40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2233 (2025) — Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate legislative rules

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 82–14 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 86–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smith, D. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Energy and Public Works
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-12 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-07 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-10 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-11 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-11 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2025-03-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-12 Passed House (Roll No. 62) passage
• 2025-03-12 Effective from passage (Roll No. 63)
• 2025-03-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-02 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-03 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-04 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-04 Passed Senate (Roll No. 310) passage
• 2025-04-04 Effective from passage (Roll No. 311)
• 2025-04-04 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-04 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-07 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-10 To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-09 To Governor 4/9/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-10 To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-25 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90387bed-365b-4704-9b92-9d8b5d1d0a66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).