---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing the Division of Natural Resources to teach hunter’s safety courses in school"
description: "Allowing the Division of Natural Resources to teach hunter’s safety courses in school"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4065"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4065 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Booth"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af01d51f-a626-4f46-beae-fa277e730f85"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4065&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1e3f6bd410150c93d617606525c7c237e0e25e6d069ca382a4f6801cf86944c4"
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 4065 (2022) — Allowing the Division of Natural Resources to teach hunter’s safety courses in school

## 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=HB4065%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4065)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4065%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4065)
3. **HB4065 S ED AM _1 3-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4065 S ED AM _1 3-1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4065 S ED AMT _1 3-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4065 S ED AMT _1 3-1 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4065%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4065)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Booth — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-13** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** To House Education `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. 39) `passage`
- **2022-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-26** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 342) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 436)
- **2022-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-10** House Message received
- **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 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 102, 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/af01d51f-a626-4f46-beae-fa277e730f85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).