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+type: "Bill"
+title: "To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission."
+description: "To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4097"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4097 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Holstein"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 54
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-17"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1966e4d5-797c-4ac6-aaa9-330dc37b774e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4097&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "e0d61a4dc0fbcd92287be9e5a43c5f543bd033ed1f3f28e62d51ece97ef56b41"
+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 4097 (2022) — To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission.
+
+## 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=HB4097%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4097)
+2. **HB4097 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4097 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB4097 SFAT TRUMP _1 2-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4097 SFAT TRUMP _1 2-11 adopted.htm)
+4. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 669)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/house/00669.pdf)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4097%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4097)
+6. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/senate/03-12-0546.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Holstein — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Steele — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-26** Do pass
+- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 59) `passage`
+- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading
+- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-14** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-15** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 133) `passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-09** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
+- **2022-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-10** House Message received
+- **2022-03-10** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
+- **2022-03-10** Senate appoints conference committee: Weld, Azinger, Woelfel
+- **2022-03-10** Communicated to House
+- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-11** House agreed to conference
+- **2022-03-11** House appointed conferees: Steele, Holstein, Diserio
+- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-11** To conference
+- **2022-03-12** Conference report filed - House
+- **2022-03-12** Conference report filed - Senate
+- **2022-03-12** Conference report received-House
+- **2022-03-12** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 669)
+- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-12** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)
+- **2022-03-12** Communicated to House
+- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `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 113, 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/1966e4d5-797c-4ac6-aaa9-330dc37b774e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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