---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening"
description: "Relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4581"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4581 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09226dc3-0f0a-453f-8b9c-39c59e816ded"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4581&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "313c0751fdf524ee38725733561a5b0ab72924641ec9e8ddcdd1c02c81023bf6"
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 4581 (2020) — Relating to West Virginia Clearance for Access: Registry and Employment Screening

## 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=HB4581%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4581)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4581%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4581)
3. **HB4581 S H_HR AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4581 S H_HR AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4581%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4581)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pack — primary (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-29** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-29** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-17** Passed House (Roll No. 207) `passage`
- **2020-02-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 466) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 628)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **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 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 170, 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/09226dc3-0f0a-453f-8b9c-39c59e816ded`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).