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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making"
+description: "Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4353"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4353 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-15"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bd63911-87ed-4c67-b2c3-90a9b5fb5ccf"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4353&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7907e7cddcfd4e89eb0dbc8b48307927fe1229f6602e93f4cf03bb5e969ded3b"
+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 4353 (2020) — Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making
+
+## 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=HB4353%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4353)
+2. **HB4353 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4353 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB4353 SFAT _1 MAYNARD 2-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4353 SFAT _1 MAYNARD 2-7 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4353%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4353)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Howell — primary (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kump — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-15** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-15** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** Do pass
+- **2020-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 64) `passage`
+- **2020-01-30** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-12** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-13** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-14** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-14** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/14/20
+- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-17** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-18** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 174) `passage`
+- **2020-02-18** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-02-19** House received Senate message
+- **2020-02-19** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 229)
+- **2020-02-19** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-19** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-02-20** House Message received
+- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 247, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bd63911-87ed-4c67-b2c3-90a9b5fb5ccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+