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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources"
+description: "Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 4274"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4274 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-10"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4274&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "4b54d76470547758b0b65807b6d14e33277338c059c68e8e5237f74551a03ff7"
+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 4274 (2024) — Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
+4. **hb4274 hfa summers 1-15 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20hfa%20summers%201-15%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **hb4274 sfa maroney adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20sfa%20maroney%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb4274 sfat maroney adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20sfat%20maroney%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **26–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Summers — primary (person)
+- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
+- Hite — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Tully — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-12** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-16** Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice)
+- **2024-01-16** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-01-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-17** Passed House (Roll No. 3) `passage`
+- **2024-01-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 4)
+- **2024-01-17** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-18** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2024-01-18** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-18** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 38)
+- **2024-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-18** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-01-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 39) `passage`
+- **2024-01-18** Title amendment adopted
+- **2024-01-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 39)
+- **2024-01-18** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-01-22** House received Senate message
+- **2024-01-22** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-01-22** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 12)
+- **2024-01-22** Effective from passage (Roll No. 13)
+- **2024-01-22** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-22** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-01-23** House Message received
+- **2024-01-26** To Governor 1/26/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-01-26** To Governor 1/26/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-01-29** To Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-01-29** Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-01-26** Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-01-29** Approved by Governor 1/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 149, 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/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+