republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-3179.md

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Bill	Funding for failing public utilities	Funding for failing public utilities	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 3179	West Virginia HB 3179 (2025)	bill	Public Service Commission Utilities	enacted	Kyle	4	37	2	2025-03-06	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/4d6425f4-3ec4-43f5-8d0e-d44b9a9ea5a3	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3179&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	98db5ae84011a0c778a7beb95909f9e3dc5019c88067c313678a35f22875a2e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3179 (2025) — Funding for failing public utilities

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 — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kyle — primary (person)
• Cannon, D. — cosponsor (person)
• Sheedy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-06 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-06 To Energy and Public Works
• 2025-03-06 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-06 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-03-09 To House Enviroment, Infrastructure, and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 To House Energy and Public Works referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-26 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-27 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-28 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-31 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Passed House (Roll No. 282) passage
• 2025-03-31 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-01 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-01 To Energy, Industry, and Mining
• 2025-04-01 To Energy, Industry, and Mining
• 2025-04-07 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-08 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-09 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-09 Laid over on 3rd reading 4/9/2025
• 2025-04-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 441) passage
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-10 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-21 To Governor 4/21/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-29 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 237, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d6425f4-3ec4-43f5-8d0e-d44b9a9ea5a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).