---
type: "Bill"
title: "Initiating a State Employment First Policy to facilitate integrated employment of disabled persons"
description: "Initiating a State Employment First Policy to facilitate integrated employment of disabled persons"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2290"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2290 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Graves"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6ed33d3-b8cd-4446-8e59-0e2c7fc0125f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2290&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3ebe177fff20af3c02e1903f7e7b62590f3ebeb2252b4537cb28b285b9537301"
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 2290 (2021) — Initiating a State Employment First Policy to facilitate integrated employment of disabled persons

## 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=HB2290%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2290)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2290%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2290)
3. **HB2290 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2290 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2290 S WORK AMT _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2290 S WORK AMT _1 3-10 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2290%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2290)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Graves — primary (person)
- Conley — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Workforce Development then Government Organization
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Workforce Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 60) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-01** To Workforce then Finance
- **2021-03-01** To Workforce
- **2021-03-11** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-26** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-27** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-27** Workforce Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-27** Finance Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-29** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 232) `passage`
- **2021-03-29** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-03-30** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-30** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 321)
- **2021-03-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-30** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-31** 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 282, 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/f6ed33d3-b8cd-4446-8e59-0e2c7fc0125f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).