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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
+description: "Relating to crimes against public justice"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 4"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 4 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Oliverio"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-14"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bf0c900-662e-42cb-bea0-39d12fabebe4"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b3eef44d2024b9bd043716764fceef122dbad228f8916c5877a83057cfddb5cb"
+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 SB 4 (2026) — Relating to crimes against public justice
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb4%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb4%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb4%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4)
+4. **sb4 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/sb4%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **sb4 sfa willis 3-13 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/sb4%20sfa%20willis%203-13%20_2%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
+- HFA HORNBUCKLE 3-11 — **8–83** (fail) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **83–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Oliverio — primary (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-23** Committee substitute reported
+- **2026-01-26** On 1st reading
+- **2026-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 17) `passage`
+- **2026-01-19** Ordered to House
+- **2026-01-30** House received Senate message
+- **2026-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-01-30** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Markup Discussion
+- **2026-03-10** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-11** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2026-03-11** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 409) `amendment-failure`
+- **2026-03-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 411) `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-13** House Message received
+- **2026-03-13** Senate amended House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 592)
+- **2026-03-13** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-14** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-14** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 691)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to House
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/19/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 96, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bf0c900-662e-42cb-bea0-39d12fabebe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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