---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making"
description: "Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4352"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4352 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennings"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86f9e06a-bac1-4fbc-b85e-c6f60086c50b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4352&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "25754730b5a9893031f6160fee7ab2234d3810b37368d4ad002550eb45a9d9c5"
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 4352 (2020) — Removing the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure or certification in decision making

## 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=HB4352%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4352)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4352%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4352)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4352%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4352)

## Votes

- Passage — **25–9** (pass) · upper
- HFA FOSTER 2-5 — **48–50** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennings — primary (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-15** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 106) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** Passed House (Roll No. 109) `passage`
- **2020-02-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** Floor amendments rejected (Roll No. 387)
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 396) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 246, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86f9e06a-bac1-4fbc-b85e-c6f60086c50b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).