---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding, increasing, and decreasing appropriations from General Revenue to DHHR"
description: "Adding, increasing, and decreasing appropriations from General Revenue to DHHR"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 634"
citation: "West Virginia SB 634 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e499e75-d881-4bd8-bfb1-449babf66530"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=634&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "03a962b4b562937228a3a23d96abaa48d75b9a07eb4f08443dbb9d9c1662e546"
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 634 (2018) — Adding, increasing, and decreasing appropriations from General Revenue to DHHR

## 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=SB634%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=634)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB634%20ORG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=634)

## Votes

- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)
- Arvon — cosponsor (person)
- Boley — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Ferns — cosponsor (person)
- Gaunch — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** Originating in Senate Finance
- **2018-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 401) `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 401)
- **2018-03-08** Ordered to House
- **2018-03-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-03-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-10** Do pass
- **2018-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-10** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 529)
- **2018-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 530) `passage`
- **2018-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 531)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-14** To Governor 3/14/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/14/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/14/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/15/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 20, 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/1e499e75-d881-4bd8-bfb1-449babf66530`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).