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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities"
description: "Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 578"
citation: "West Virginia SB 578 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dff7253-6cdf-43d9-be91-7f6d1b85a514"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=578&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "35465774a727bcd2f8dde71bc37088428e32d523206c1267da3c5168811e49c4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---
# West Virginia SB 578 (2020) — Recalculating tax on generating, producing, or selling electricity from solar energy facilities
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB578%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB578%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB578%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=578)
4. **SB578 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB578 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-2 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **7620** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **8115** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Energy, Industry, and Mining then Finance
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2020-02-14** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 226) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 226)
- **2020-02-24** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-25** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-29** Do pass
- **2020-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 510) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 511)
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-06** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 478) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 478)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 326, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9dff7253-6cdf-43d9-be91-7f6d1b85a514`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).