---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state"
description: "Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2028"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2028 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Amendments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folk"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a63c6211-3f49-4b71-8cd4-e3ae708d64d8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2028&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b78db126bcbdea47adddb3405c24b3364e86db4b4207e3ad0aa074f8466ca26b"
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 2028 (2018) — Relating to the venue for suits and other actions against the state

## 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=HB2028%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2028)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2028%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2028)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2028%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2028)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Folk — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-01-19** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-23** Passed House (Roll No. 9) `passage`
- **2018-01-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-01-24** House Message received
- **2018-01-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 402) `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 40, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a63c6211-3f49-4b71-8cd4-e3ae708d64d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).