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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules"
+description: "Authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4126"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4126 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-18"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d77877c5-1e39-40d1-9dca-8ed49126ec5f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4126&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "5b4312048dccf448c9cfaf1b0c030ded87bee3401a31595c875beb52508cac60"
+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 4126 (2022) — Authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules
+
+## 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=HB4126%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4126)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4126%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4126)
+3. **HB4126 S JUD AM _1 2-22 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4126 S JUD AM _1 2-22 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4126%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4126)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Foster — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-01-18** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-01-18** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-02** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2022-02-02** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-10** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 136) `passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 137)
+- **2022-02-15** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-24** On 1st reading
+- **2022-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-25** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-25** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2022-02-28** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-28** Passed Senate (Roll No. 243) `passage`
+- **2022-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 243)
+- **2022-02-28** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-03** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 355)
+- **2022-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 356)
+- **2022-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-04** House Message received
+- **2022-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-09** To Governor 3/9/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-09** To Governor 3/9/22 - House Journal `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 173, 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/d77877c5-1e39-40d1-9dca-8ed49126ec5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+