---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring certain public or private schools and daycare centers to install carbon monoxide detectors"
description: "Requiring certain public or private schools and daycare centers to install carbon monoxide detectors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4138"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4138 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byrd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca41dd72-ecac-426b-916c-385b96248d17"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4138&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fca51762c97e1b4ca14671058a728a7d28e0f960532c2f7ca3e01c93b223204e"
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 4138 (2018) — Requiring certain public or private schools and daycare centers to install carbon monoxide detectors

## 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=HB4138%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4138)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4138%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4138)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4138%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4138)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Byrd — primary (person)
- Blair — cosponsor (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Lane — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-01-31** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-02** Passed House (Roll No. 39) `passage`
- **2018-02-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-05** House Message received
- **2018-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 287) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 290)
- **2018-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-03** House Message received
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/8/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 215, 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/ca41dd72-ecac-426b-916c-385b96248d17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).