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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to adult protective services system"
+description: "Relating to adult protective services system"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4279"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4279 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rowan"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-24"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd8cf727-0911-478f-8f7e-e70dbdd5ea24"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4279&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "024da12090dbd0b6aa5719d151e1266e5843b940ed4972b5958f75ae60d138d3"
+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 4279 (2018) — Relating to adult protective services system
+
+## 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=HB4279%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4279)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4279%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4279)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4279%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4279)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4279%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4279)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rowan — primary (person)
+- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
+- Fast — cosponsor (person)
+- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Moye — cosponsor (person)
+- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
+- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-24** To Senior Citizen Issues then Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-24** To House Senior Citizen Issues `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** With amendment, do pass, but first to Health and Human Resources `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-02** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-13** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 102) `passage`
+- **2018-02-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-15** House Message received
+- **2018-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-15** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 362) `passage`
+- **2018-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate 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 121, 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/cd8cf727-0911-478f-8f7e-e70dbdd5ea24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+