---
type: "Bill"
title: "Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
description: "Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4484"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4484 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature", "Local and Special Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Householder"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007a2fa2-fabb-4c04-b19b-08d5b509493f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4484&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "98db0e6d7cd9b8955471e74be839233137eb3d48f33f0698146f252e5c937173"
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 4484 (2022) — Declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state

## 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=HB4484%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4484)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4484%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4484)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4484%20intr.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4484)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Householder — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Rowe — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 142) `passage`
- **2022-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 143)
- **2022-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 366)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 367) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 357)
- **2022-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-07** 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 3/28/22 - 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 52, 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/007a2fa2-fabb-4c04-b19b-08d5b509493f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).