---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals"
description: "Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 428"
citation: "West Virginia SB 428 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c0cc9e-6b22-43c5-a2be-0e9c9a6ecc16"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=428&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "04485800339767ef7da95eb5e16dd5acab5a0171ddc227bbc7403ac536708ad1"
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 428 (2024) — Establishing appeals from administrative rulings are to be filed with Intermediate Court of Appeals

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb428%20%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=428)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb428%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=428)
3. **sb428 h go am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb428%20h%20go%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-23** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-25** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 64) `passage`
- **2024-01-25** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-26** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** Passed House (Roll No. 133) `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-12** House Message received
- **2024-02-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 114)
- **2024-02-12** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-12** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-14** To Governor 2/14/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-16** To Governor 2/16/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/20/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-21** Approved by Governor 2/20/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-21** Approved by Governor 2/20/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 2, 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/26c0cc9e-6b22-43c5-a2be-0e9c9a6ecc16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).