---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1"
description: "Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4461"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4461 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Salaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4722ae7d-f17c-4ad0-9719-56003a6fcc8b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4461&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "771e3edad3c580178eee701f2e15895b919373ddf14228c3c11e460f941a4917"
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 4461 (2020) — Requiring the Governor to fix the salaries of certain state appointed officers after the office is vacated or after July 1

## 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=HB4461%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4461)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4461%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4461)
3. **HB4461 HFA HOUSEHOLDER AND SUMMERS 3-6 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4461 HFA HOUSEHOLDER AND SUMMERS 3-6 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4461 HFAT SUMMERS AND HOUSEHOLDER 3-6 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4461 HFAT SUMMERS AND HOUSEHOLDER 3-6 _1 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4461 SFA _1 BLAIR 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4461 SFA _1 BLAIR 2-28 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4461%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4461)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **84–13** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **63–35** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 342) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-28** Committee reference dispensed
- **2020-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-29** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-29** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 378) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 693)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 623)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 168, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4722ae7d-f17c-4ad0-9719-56003a6fcc8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).