republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2451.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	To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses	To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2451	West Virginia HB 2451 (2025)	bill	Economic Development	enacted	Hornby	13	56	5	2025-02-17	2025-08-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2451&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	d4c97563fe5cf93e208f0f8c660e0355722532689bbcee148d35bf225edf5419	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2451 (2025) — To facilitate the creation of home-based businesses

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
5. Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590) (committee substitute) — source
6. hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb2451 hfa kelly _1 4-12 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb2451 hfat anderson 4-12 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
9. hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
10. hb2451 hfat kelly 4-12 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
11. hb2451 s jud am _1 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
12. hb2451 sfa queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
13. hb2451 sfat queen _1 4-10 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 70–26 (pass) · lower
• TITLE AMENDMENT — 37–58 (fail) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 82–12 (pass) · lower
• PREVIOUS QUESTION — 59–35 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 28–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hornby — primary (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Crouse — cosponsor (person)
• Green — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle — cosponsor (person)
• Maynor — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-17 To Energy and Public Works
• 2025-02-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-17 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 To House Economic Development referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-06 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-17 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-18 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-18 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-19 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-20 Passed House (Roll No. 121) passage
• 2025-03-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-08 On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 Reported do pass, with amendment committee-passage
• 2025-04-10 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Committee Amendment Reported
• 2025-04-10 Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-10 Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-11 Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
• 2025-04-11 Passed Senate (Roll No. 515) passage
• 2025-04-11 Title amendment adopted
• 2025-04-11 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-12 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-12 Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 590)
• 2025-04-12 House Concur in Senate Amendment and Title Amendment rejected (Roll No. 591) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-12 House requests Senate to recede (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-12 House reconsidered passage (Voice)
• 2025-04-12 House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 637)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 2025-04-12 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 605)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-22 To Governor 4/22/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-14 Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f17466bb-a854-42af-9b37-c0cd40e4e6e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).