---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to role of the Legislature in appropriating federal funds"
description: "Relating to role of the Legislature in appropriating federal funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2014"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2014 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2ce2cb9-c882-4763-921a-dd30606fcdce"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2014&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4ae460411afb2f6eeac7c31927ea3012f5b04615d4ec3238a085e877082a9ce4"
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 2014 (2021) — Relating to role of the Legislature in appropriating federal funds

## 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=HB2014%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2014)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2014%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2014)
3. **HB2014 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2014 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2014%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2014)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kimes — primary (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-15** Placed on House Calendar
- **2021-02-18** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2021-02-18** Placed on Special Calender
- **2021-02-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 39) `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 40)
- **2021-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-30** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-31** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-31** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 291)
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 292) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 292)
- **2021-03-31** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-31** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 387)
- **2021-03-31** Effective from passage (Roll No. 388)
- **2021-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-31** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-01** House Message received
- **2021-04-01** To Governor 4/1/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-01** To Governor 4/1/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-01** To Governor 4/1/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-07** Approved by Governor 4/7/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/7/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-07** Approved by Governor 4/7/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2ce2cb9-c882-4763-921a-dd30606fcdce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).