---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency"
description: "Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4016"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4016 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Officers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5992d4f0-9e10-4fe9-b8d5-48cdcb30bc33"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4016&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "dc8b2774e839546f2b726c5b6ee912d4fcfa44bed538d5f2bb40d06722479dba"
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 4016 (2018) — Relating to combatting waste, fraud, and misuse of public funds through investigations, accountability and transparency

## 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=HB4016%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4016%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4016%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4016)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Atkinson — primary (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-25** To Judiciary then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-06** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 228) `passage`
- **2018-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-28** House Message received
- **2018-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 383) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 393)
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 206, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5992d4f0-9e10-4fe9-b8d5-48cdcb30bc33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).