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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Declaring certain claims against an agency of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
+description: "Declaring certain claims against an agency of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4433"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4433 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature", "Local and Special Laws"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59c51692-e0b4-4c35-a35e-699e64e12728"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4433&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "862a7fd72affc71bf2fd320afa7e3910051cbbee6ce4e5fac8f256239f8d83bd"
+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 4433 (2018) — Declaring certain claims against an agency of the state to be moral obligations of the state
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4433%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4433)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4433%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4433)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Ambler — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Frich — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Longstreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
+- Sponaugle — cosponsor (person)
+- Walters — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-02-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-12** Do pass
+- **2018-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 120) `passage`
+- **2018-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 121)
+- **2018-02-15** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-16** House Message received
+- **2018-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
+- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-01** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/1/18
+- **2018-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 320) `passage`
+- **2018-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 320)
+- **2018-03-03** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 41, 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/59c51692-e0b4-4c35-a35e-699e64e12728`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+