---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan"
description: "Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4238"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4238 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fleischauer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a6360cd-ab5a-4869-81d1-26688ebd41b3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4238&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7cfdf3ea377f82e7a4ebdd5270fef3410dc1a66ee3682d6440ae2690c95c0d98"
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 4238 (2018) — Authorizing counties and municipalities to establish a joint airport hazard comprehensive plan

## 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=HB4238%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4238)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4238%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4238)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4238%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4238)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4238%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4238)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Fleischauer — primary (person)
- Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-22** To Political Subdivisions then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-22** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2018-02-08** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-23** Placed on House Calender
- **2018-02-26** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-26** Placed on Special Calender
- **2018-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 234) `passage`
- **2018-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-28** House Message received
- **2018-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-02** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 347) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 139, 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/8a6360cd-ab5a-4869-81d1-26688ebd41b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).