---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to authorizing the Superintendent of the State Police to administer the Handle with Care program"
description: "Relating to authorizing the Superintendent of the State Police to administer the Handle with Care program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4578"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4578 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Capito"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc204251-892e-4e16-b3e0-9ae6f75fb53e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4578&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "36055bc31dffd72d09ba8f8b8eabbf45d84e9b491c734dd0d76a9667574a5cec"
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 4578 (2022) — Relating to authorizing the Superintendent of the State Police to administer the Handle with Care program

## 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=HB4578%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4578)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4578%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4578)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Capito — primary (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Do pass
- **2022-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** Passed House (Roll No. 161) `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** To Judiciary `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`
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 359)
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 360) `passage`
- **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 3/30/2022 - 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 247, 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/dc204251-892e-4e16-b3e0-9ae6f75fb53e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).