---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time"
description: "Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 3223"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3223 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Municipalities", "Real and Personal Property", "Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pack"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e18030ba-54f1-4cda-b741-0f12663e6507"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3223&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "da5e10b5b660d7862cd506449cef697ff7bcdf294817d790c3fe740f88929e6a"
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 3223 (2022) — Prohibit state, county, and municipal governments from dedicating or naming any public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time

## 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=HB3223%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3223)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3223%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3223)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3223%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=3223)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pack — primary (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — 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`
- **2022-02-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 198) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 369) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 215, 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/e18030ba-54f1-4cda-b741-0f12663e6507`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).