---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Law Enforcement Training and Certification Standards"
description: "Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Law Enforcement Training and Certification Standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4141"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4141 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/257ef898-acf6-4486-8adb-67d86dc2d294"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4141&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c70cde774acc171836fd4033745b65783b24ce143735e81240429a01eebcb3af"
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 4141 (2022) — Authorizing the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Law Enforcement Training and Certification Standards

## 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=HB4141%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4141)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4141%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4141)
3. **HB4141 S JUD AMT _1 2-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4141 S JUD AMT _1 2-24 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4141%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4141)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-18** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-18** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2022-02-08** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 164) `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 165)
- **2022-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 372) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 372)
- **2022-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-09** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2022-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 437) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 438)
- **2022-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-10** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 174, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/257ef898-acf6-4486-8adb-67d86dc2d294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).