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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency"
+description: "Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4016"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4016 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Constitutional Officers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Atkinson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-25"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5992d4f0-9e10-4fe9-b8d5-48cdcb30bc33"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4016&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "dc8b2774e839546f2b726c5b6ee912d4fcfa44bed538d5f2bb40d06722479dba"
+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 HB 4016 (2018) — Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency
+
+## 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=HB4016%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4016%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4016%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atkinson — primary (person)
+- Capito — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Frich — cosponsor (person)
+- Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
+- Shott — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-25** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-06** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 228) `passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-28** House Message received
+- **2018-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-05** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 383) `passage`
+- **2018-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2018-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 393)
+- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-09** House Message received
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 206, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5992d4f0-9e10-4fe9-b8d5-48cdcb30bc33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+