---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to voluntary assignments of wages by state employees who have been overpaid"
description: "Relating to voluntary assignments of wages by state employees who have been overpaid"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4368"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4368 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/744cde10-f21b-45dd-b8a2-3e0dad1f85e9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4368&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2b0dac9b37c5ef3bfd3f9ec05518fa9e38e5ce05b8b8b061c8ae724b75e3f94f"
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 4368 (2018) — Relating to voluntary assignments of wages by state employees who have been overpaid

## 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=HB4368%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4368)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4368%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4368)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4368%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4368)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–2** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Lane — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-31** To Industry and Labor then Judiciary
- **2018-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-31** To House Industry and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-02-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 192) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-23** House Message received
- **2018-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2018-03-05** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 363) `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Judiciary Title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2018-03-06** Floor Title amendment adopted
- **2018-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 357)
- **2018-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-08** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 136, 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/744cde10-f21b-45dd-b8a2-3e0dad1f85e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).