---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration forms and tags for registration, taxation, and control of dogs."
description: "Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration forms and tags for registration, taxation, and control of dogs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4265"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4265 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be8e2d35-1ac1-4167-bc4a-1a5546aa8d98"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4265&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ff9c542d8b58f857044c5ec27d85d6f44916e70ae7d313c6ba19d9987c4fb95c"
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 4265 (2026) — Relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to registration forms and tags for registration, taxation, and control of dogs.

## 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=hb4265%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4265)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4265%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4265)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4265%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4265)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4265%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4265)
5. **hb4265 s jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4265%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–2** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **91–2** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **89–4** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smith, D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-14** To Government Organization then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2026-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 199) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 200)
- **2026-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-09** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/9/2026
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 456) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 457)
- **2026-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 689)
- **2026-03-14** Effective from passage (Roll No. 690)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 220, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be8e2d35-1ac1-4167-bc4a-1a5546aa8d98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).