---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to permitting the use of air rifles when hunting"
description: "Relating to permitting the use of air rifles when hunting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20222S"
identifier: "HB 210"
citation: "West Virginia HB 210 (20222S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-04-25"
last_action: "2022-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/488df051-a28d-4d22-892d-6aac377cae0c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=210&year=2022&sessiontype=2X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b340b9e92b68a16f0502e911a963d4b943905d20799cee383c3e48d05a86cfb5"
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 210 (20222S) — Relating to permitting the use of air rifles when hunting

## 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=HB210%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=2X&i=210)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB210%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=2X&i=210)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-04-25** Reference dispensed
- **2022-04-25** Immediate consideration
- **2022-04-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-04-25** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 702)
- **2022-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Passed House (Roll No. 703) `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 704)
- **2022-04-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-04-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-04-25** Immediate consideration
- **2022-04-25** Committee reference dispensed
- **2022-04-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-04-25** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 19)
- **2022-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 20) `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 20)
- **2022-04-25** Communicated to House
- **2022-04-25** Completed legislative action
- **2022-04-26** House received Senate message
- **2022-04-26** To Governor 4/272022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-27** To Governor 4/27/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-26** To Governor 4/27/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-03** Approved by Governor 5/3/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-26** Approved by Governor 5/3/22 - House Journal
- **2022-04-26** Approved by Governor 5/3/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-05-06** Chapter 6, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/488df051-a28d-4d22-892d-6aac377cae0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).