republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2399.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 the taxation of managed timber	Relating to the taxation of managed timber	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2399	West Virginia HB 2399 (2025)	bill	Natural Resources Taxation	enacted	Hillenbrand	4	35	2	2025-02-14	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/de6767a3-5eaa-4ff2-935e-134921064b14	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2399&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	df5350c52e3c757df91bf25229afe65092a3b6dbd82196eb996c32b8f7b337fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2399 (2025) — Relating to the taxation of managed timber

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 — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 91–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hillenbrand — primary (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Masters — cosponsor (person)
• Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-14 To Finance referral-committee
• 2025-02-14 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-14 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-25 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-27 Passed House (Roll No. 210) passage
• 2025-03-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-29 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-29 To Natural Resources then Finance referral-committee
• 2025-03-29 To Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Reported do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2025-04-03 2nd reference dispensed
• 2025-04-03 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-04 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-07 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 331) passage
• 2025-04-07 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-07 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 228, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de6767a3-5eaa-4ff2-935e-134921064b14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).