---
type: "Bill"
title: "Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration"
description: "Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "West Virginia SB 388 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10f8bd14-f73e-4846-9807-ccc8cfc6fde3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=388&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "45b94c357571122bfc68b47a1fe8c18f98cbb5a99e57b3094ec07a95f12c2a1c"
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 388 (2018) — Decreasing, increasing and adding appropriations out of Treasury to DHHR and Department of Administration

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB388%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=388)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB388%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=388)

## Votes

- Passage — **20–10** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **95–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-25** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-25** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** On 1st reading
- **2018-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** On 2nd reading
- **2018-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** On 3rd reading
- **2018-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 42) `passage`
- **2018-01-31** Senate rejects effective date (Roll No. 43)
- **2018-01-31** Ordered to House
- **2018-01-31** Senate reconsidered effective date
- **2018-01-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 46)
- **2018-01-31** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Do pass
- **2018-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 138) `passage`
- **2018-02-16** Effective from passage (Roll No. 139)
- **2018-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-16** Completed legislative action
- **2018-02-19** House Message received
- **2018-02-21** To Governor 2/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-22** To Governor 2/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-27** Approved by Governor 2/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 18, 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/10f8bd14-f73e-4846-9807-ccc8cfc6fde3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).