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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to judicial vacancies"
+description: "Relating to judicial vacancies"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4785"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4785 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-02-15"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7899068b-9a50-43e4-9024-2e707ab1f6f5"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4785&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "939a8a7063b5b46df5f57aa7fe4127be10997600c124aaa76fdc1d976bd11b42"
+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 4785 (2022) — Relating to judicial vacancies
+
+## 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=HB4785%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4785)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4785%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4785)
+3. **HB4785 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4785 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4785%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4785)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **30–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Steele — primary (person)
+- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-02-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-18** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 231) `passage`
+- **2022-02-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 232)
+- **2022-02-23** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
+- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 388) `passage`
+- **2022-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 388)
+- **2022-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-09** House concurred in Senate title amendment
+- **2022-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 450) `passage`
+- **2022-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 451)
+- **2022-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-10** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 120, 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/7899068b-9a50-43e4-9024-2e707ab1f6f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+