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type: "Bill"
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title: "Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term"
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description: "Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 3168"
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citation: "West Virginia HB 3168 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Economic Development"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 37
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-31"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3168&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "3847e59e06540391ac416f3da26637780bd95766efb89a9920961e9baad1c5b9"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia HB 3168 (2023) — Ensuring investment in WV Tourism is competitive with other states and accessible long term
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3168%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)
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2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3168%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)
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3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3168%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3168)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Criss — primary (person)
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- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
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- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
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- Riley — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2023-01-31** To Economic Development and Tourism then Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2023-01-31** To House Economic Development and Tourism `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
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- **2023-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-14** By substitute, do pass
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- **2023-02-14** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 173) `passage`
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- **2023-02-16** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2023-02-20** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-20** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-01** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
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- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
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- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 464) `passage`
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- **2023-03-09** Communicated to House
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- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/22/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-22** To Governor 3/22/2023 `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Chapter 321, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffb3cadd-6a22-42da-b21b-aff9fbdf1eb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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