---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to expanding the practice of auricular acudetox to professions approved by the acupuncturist board"
description: "Relating to expanding the practice of auricular acudetox to professions approved by the acupuncturist board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4288"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4288 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/169841c7-4378-4203-9545-0c71f9037940"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4288&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0a6dd2a956fd101da67f3302bcff30afb8ed1b71b69501d9dfae97fa156168fc"
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 4288 (2022) — Relating to expanding the practice of auricular acudetox to professions approved by the acupuncturist board

## 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=HB4288%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4288)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4288%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4288)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-19** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2022-01-21** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Do pass
- **2022-01-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 51) `passage`
- **2022-01-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-31** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 472) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **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 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 208, 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/169841c7-4378-4203-9545-0c71f9037940`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).