---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restrictions on Taxpayer funded lobbying"
description: "Restrictions on Taxpayer funded lobbying"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 3220"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3220 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Ethics"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7f7981e-fea7-428d-a45c-1f5c12618603"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3220&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "848b11af54161f42c7c537666c16d1f673a6910e8fa3204891c013402956ce7e"
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 3220 (2022) — Restrictions on Taxpayer funded lobbying

## 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=HB3220%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3220)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3220%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3220)
3. **HB3220 S GOV AM _1 2-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB3220 S GOV AM _1 2-1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB3220 S GOV AMT _1 2-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB3220 S GOV AMT _1 2-2 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3220%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3220)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pack — primary (person)
- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
- Conley — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** Passed House (Roll No. 35) `passage`
- **2022-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 103) `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 103)
- **2022-02-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-02-21** House received Senate message
- **2022-02-21** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 178)
- **2022-02-21** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 179)
- **2022-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-21** Completed legislative action
- **2022-02-22** House Message received
- **2022-02-24** To Governor 2/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-25** To Governor 2/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-24** To Governor 2/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-03** Approved by Governor 3/2/22 - House Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 177, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7f7981e-fea7-428d-a45c-1f5c12618603`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).