---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General"
description: "Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 300"
citation: "West Virginia SB 300 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deeds"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 48
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09faa4ce-77c3-4346-9515-14b30b8ae622"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=300&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "69956c47635299261a781df5c1a26a7c9b6779fab90b6657d57bbc29f1a622d0"
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 300 (2024) — Relating to organization of Office of Inspector General

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb300%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=300)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb300%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=300)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb300%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=300)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb300%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=300)
5. **sb300 hfa summers 2-2 _2 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfa%20summers%202-2%20_2%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb300 hfa summers 2-2 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfa%20summers%202-2%20_2%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb300 hfa summers 2-2 _3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfa%20summers%202-2%20_3%20adopted.htm)
8. **sb300 hfat summers 1-29 adopted adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfat%20summers%201-29%20adopted%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
9. **sb300 hfat summers 1-29 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfat%20summers%201-29%20adopted%20adopted.htm)
10. **sb300 hfat summers 1-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20hfat%20summers%201-29%20adopted.htm)
11. **sb300 sfa takubo _ 1-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20sfa%20takubo%20_%201-23%20adopted.htm)
12. **sb300 sfat takubo _ 1-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20sfat%20takubo%20_%201-23%20adopted.htm)
13. **sb300 sfat takubo _ 2-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb300%20sfat%20takubo%20_%202-6%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Deeds — primary (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-01-18** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-22** Laid over on 2nd reading 1/22/2024
- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-01-24** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 54) `passage`
- **2024-01-24** Title amendment adopted
- **2024-01-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 54)
- **2024-01-24** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 93) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 94)
- **2024-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-07** House Message received
- **2024-02-07** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 101)
- **2024-02-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 101)
- **2024-02-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-02-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-08** House concurred in Senate amendment (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-08** Passed House (Roll No. 119) `passage`
- **2024-02-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 120)
- **2024-02-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-09** House Message received
- **2024-02-13** To Governor 2/13/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-14** To Governor 2/13/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-19** Approved by Governor 2/19/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 208, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09faa4ce-77c3-4346-9515-14b30b8ae622`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).