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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
+description: "Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4582"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4582 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature", "Local and Special Laws"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-29"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a4177c5-6301-4a10-81e9-13f65418691c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4582&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7c0f5b9bf1ee65de92105581319d156084b30b4161fa62ab08cff3aa07f8f482"
+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 4582 (2020) — Declaring certain claims against agencies 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=HB4582%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4582)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4582%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4582)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **29–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Criss — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-29** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-29** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-05** Do pass
+- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 128) `passage`
+- **2020-02-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 129)
+- **2020-02-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 366) `passage`
+- **2020-02-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 366)
+- **2020-02-29** Communicated to House
+- **2020-02-29** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 49, 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/8a4177c5-6301-4a10-81e9-13f65418691c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+