---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring secretary of DHHR to allocate CPS workers by Bureau of Social Services' district annually"
description: "Requiring secretary of DHHR to allocate CPS workers by Bureau of Social Services' district annually"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 274"
citation: "West Virginia SB 274 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-14"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00701b29-ceb1-4aee-ac02-39885cd27a8c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=274&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a4278e5b37622a6cee55d046d753524c4b8eb7148cb96c78278b8b0d6f2eadb3"
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 SB 274 (2022) — Requiring secretary of DHHR to allocate CPS workers by Bureau of Social Services' district annually

## 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=SB274%20SUB1.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=274)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB274%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=274)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB274%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=274)
4. **SB274 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/SB274 H HHR AM _1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-14** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-14** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Committee substitute reported
- **2022-02-17** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 162) `passage`
- **2022-02-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 162)
- **2022-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2022-02-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 412) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 413)
- **2022-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** House Message received
- **2022-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 403)
- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 403)
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-20** Chapter 155, 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/00701b29-ceb1-4aee-ac02-39885cd27a8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).