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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office"
+description: "Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4473"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4473 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Ethics"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sobonya"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-08"
+last_action: "2018-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/248cbd6b-5964-4558-8a91-6e503f842c1b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4473&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "da326934736ebc12558974c13d2e06b13fef84c90b074ae9674d69bb8265450a"
+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 4473 (2018) — Relating to use of state funds for advertising to promote a public official or government office
+
+## 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=HB4473%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4473)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4473%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4473)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4473%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4473)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sobonya — primary (person)
+- Ambler — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Overington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Romine, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-14** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 2/15/18
+- **2018-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 156) `passage`
+- **2018-02-19** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-20** House Message received
+- **2018-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-01** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-02** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2018-03-02** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 323) `passage`
+- **2018-03-03** Judiciary Title amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-03** Floor Title amendment adopted
+- **2018-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2018-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 359)
+- **2018-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-08** 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
+- **2018-04-17** Chapter 89, 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/248cbd6b-5964-4558-8a91-6e503f842c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+