---
type: "Bill"
title: "West Virginia’s Urban Mass Transportation Authority Act"
description: "West Virginia’s Urban Mass Transportation Authority Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4331"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4331 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70511168-f4ac-4b32-837a-901ff785b741"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4331&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "960d0f8ba6abdce4c7a613eea33540daa450b17a3d99cf0715880510823ef49c"
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 4331 (2022) — West Virginia’s Urban Mass Transportation Authority Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4331%20ENG.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4331)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4331%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4331)
3. **HB4331 HFA CAPITO 2-18 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4331 HFA CAPITO 2-18 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4331 S JUD AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4331 S JUD AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4331 S JUD AMT _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4331 S JUD AMT _1 3-4 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4331%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4331)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Do pass
- **2022-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/17/22
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Placed on House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Placed on Special Calender
- **2022-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 247) `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 248)
- **2022-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 411) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 411)
- **2022-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 575)
- **2022-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 576)
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** 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 3/30/2022 - 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 166, 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/70511168-f4ac-4b32-837a-901ff785b741`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).