---
type: "Bill"
title: "Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response"
description: "Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4162"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4162 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf009d25-96bf-4f8e-8143-18a355a2d671"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4162&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "67c9c99907f62919bdd3a12de48bd31b6b65f086aec5a292ef6a4152897bae57"
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 4162 (2018) — Granting authority to the State Conservation Committee to contract for flood response

## 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=HB4162%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4162)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4162%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4162)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4162%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4162)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Ambler — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- Mr. Speaker — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-17** To Government Organization then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-17** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-01-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-01** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 45) `passage`
- **2018-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-06** House Message received
- **2018-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-06** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2018-02-15** Communicated to House
- **2018-02-15** Completed legislative action
- **2018-02-16** House received Senate message
- **2018-02-21** To Governor 2/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-21** To Governor 2/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-21** To Governor 2/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-27** Approved by Governor 2/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-02-27** Approved by Governor 2/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 10, 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/cf009d25-96bf-4f8e-8143-18a355a2d671`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).