---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity"
description: "Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4311"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4311 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holstein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4311&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "90a434ec0ee6ff7f1ebcd821bb04414e64edb3c655742d5c346198286aca5782"
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 4311 (2022) — Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity

## 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=HB4311%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4311%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)
3. **HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4311%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)

## Votes

- Passage — **27–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holstein — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Conley — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** Passed House (Roll No. 75) `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 409) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 574)
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** 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 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 115, 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/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).