---
type: "Bill"
title: "To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission."
description: "To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4097"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4097 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holstein"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 54
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1966e4d5-797c-4ac6-aaa9-330dc37b774e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4097&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e0d61a4dc0fbcd92287be9e5a43c5f543bd033ed1f3f28e62d51ece97ef56b41"
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 4097 (2022) — To prohibit nonpublic funding sources for election administration and related expenses without prior written approval by the State Election Commission.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4097%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4097)
2. **HB4097 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4097 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4097 SFAT TRUMP _1 2-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4097 SFAT TRUMP _1 2-11 adopted.htm)
4. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 669)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/house/00669.pdf)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4097%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4097)
6. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/senate/03-12-0546.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holstein — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Do pass
- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 59) `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 133) `passage`
- **2022-02-15** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-09** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2022-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** House Message received
- **2022-03-10** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** Senate appoints conference committee: Weld, Azinger, Woelfel
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House agreed to conference
- **2022-03-11** House appointed conferees: Steele, Holstein, Diserio
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** To conference
- **2022-03-12** Conference report filed - House
- **2022-03-12** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2022-03-12** Conference report received-House
- **2022-03-12** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 669)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 546)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `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 113, 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/1966e4d5-797c-4ac6-aaa9-330dc37b774e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).