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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the registration of business"
+description: "Relating to the registration of business"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4401"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4401 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Labor"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ambler"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 51
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c71aa43f-ec81-4284-b977-d3a1e89dc93b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4401&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1b702ab36c197b4a8c35557f6b4e5366c2c2fa308bb0bbd1ccd7a6c12a9e324b"
+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 4401 (2018) — Relating to the registration of business
+
+## 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=HB4401%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4401)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4401%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4401)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4401%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4401)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ambler — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Frich — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
+- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-02-01** To Industry and Labor then Finance
+- **2018-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-01** To House Industry and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2018-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 168) `passage`
+- **2018-02-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 169)
+- **2018-02-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-21** House Message received
+- **2018-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Unanimous consent
+- **2018-02-28** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 408) `passage`
+- **2018-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 408)
+- **2018-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-09** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 478)
+- **2018-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 479)
+- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-09** House Message received
+- **2018-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 465)
+- **2018-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 465)
+- **2018-03-09** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 137, 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/c71aa43f-ec81-4284-b977-d3a1e89dc93b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+