West Virginia House Bill 2716

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-20 - To House Economic Development
Pending: House Economic Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create a credit against the severance tax to encourage private companies to make infrastructure improvements to highways, roads and bridges in this state. The bill limits the total amount of road and highway infrastructure improvement credits which can be certified by the Secretary of Transportation. The bill seeks to encourage greater capital investment in coal production and processing facilities. The bill will increase economic opportunity in this state. The bill authorizes the claiming of the credits. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.

Create a credit against the severance tax to encourage private companies to make infrastructure improvements to highways, roads and bridges in this state

Del. Trenton Barnhart [R]

Del. Jordan Bridges [R]

Del. Dave Foggin [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-20	House	To House Economic Development
2025-02-20	House	To House Energy and Public Works
2025-02-20	House	Introduced in House
2025-02-20	House	To Energy and Public Works then Finance
2025-02-20	House	Filed for introduction

SB448 (Similar To) 2025-02-13 - To Energy, Industry, and Mining

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
11	13NN	1	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	10	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	11	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	2	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	3	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	4	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	5	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	6	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	7	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	8	New Code	See Bill Text
11	13NN	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2716&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2716%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2716