---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners"
description: "Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4647"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4647 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c382065b-bcc3-4ffd-87aa-d2243171d0ba"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4647&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fbba234cddad7a4930a75821bf1d38fdc37bb822851df3026b75592642af0e6e"
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 4647 (2022) — Relating to the Board of Funeral Service Examiners

## 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=HB4647%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4647)
2. **HB4647 S GOV AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4647 S GOV AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4647%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4647)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-11** To Health and Human Resources then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2022-02-18** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Do pass
- **2022-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 303) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with 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`
- **2022-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 384) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 449)
- **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 214, 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/c382065b-bcc3-4ffd-87aa-d2243171d0ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).