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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service"
+description: "Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4059"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4059 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Personnel"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-12"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c20adf81-c6c4-45a1-b556-efc58d1b5b32"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4059&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c93cebf5ea76fcb834bdabf25b07c32ad9e74d7684b5e3dbd051db8bdd27f6d3"
+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 4059 (2022) — Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service
+
+## 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=HB4059%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4059%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)
+3. **HB4059 S H_HR AM _13-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4059 S H_HR AM _13-7 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB4059 S H_HR AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4059 S H_HR AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4059%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rohrbach — primary (person)
+- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-01-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-14** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-01-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 21) `passage`
+- **2022-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 22)
+- **2022-01-19** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-01-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-01-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
+- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-10** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 444) `passage`
+- **2022-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 444)
+- **2022-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 598)
+- **2022-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 599)
+- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-12** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 218, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c20adf81-c6c4-45a1-b556-efc58d1b5b32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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