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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act"
+description: "Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 4252"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4252 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime", "Domestic Relations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-10"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2f07ed0-06b3-487f-be10-88bcc76b0aec"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4252&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a59339c5e37451c5c771f5a41b85a35f1222b532ca653ba80b3c2f3d6a4bb388"
+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 4252 (2024) — Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protective Orders Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4252%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4252)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4252%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4252)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT July 01, 2024 — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **29–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Steele — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-15** Do pass
+- **2024-01-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-18** Passed House (Roll No. 10) `passage`
+- **2024-01-18** Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 11)
+- **2024-01-18** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-29** On 1st reading
+- **2024-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-30** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-31** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 85) `passage`
+- **2024-01-31** Communicated to House
+- **2024-01-31** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-01-31** Effective ninety days from passage
+- **2024-02-01** House received Senate message
+- **2024-02-02** To Governor 2/2/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-05** To Governor 2/2/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-06** To Governor 2/2/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/7/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/7/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/8/2028 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 94, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2f07ed0-06b3-487f-be10-88bcc76b0aec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+