---
type: "Bill"
title: "Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources"
description: "Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4274"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4274 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4274&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4b54d76470547758b0b65807b6d14e33277338c059c68e8e5237f74551a03ff7"
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 4274 (2024) — Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4274%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4274)
4. **hb4274 hfa summers 1-15 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20hfa%20summers%201-15%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb4274 sfa maroney adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20sfa%20maroney%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4274 sfat maroney adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4274%20sfat%20maroney%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-10** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice)
- **2024-01-16** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-01-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-17** Passed House (Roll No. 3) `passage`
- **2024-01-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 4)
- **2024-01-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-01-18** Immediate consideration
- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-18** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 38)
- **2024-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-01-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 39) `passage`
- **2024-01-18** Title amendment adopted
- **2024-01-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 39)
- **2024-01-18** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-01-22** House received Senate message
- **2024-01-22** Immediate consideration
- **2024-01-22** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 12)
- **2024-01-22** Effective from passage (Roll No. 13)
- **2024-01-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-01-22** Completed legislative action
- **2024-01-23** House Message received
- **2024-01-26** To Governor 1/26/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-26** To Governor 1/26/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-29** To Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-29** Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-01-26** Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-01-29** Approved by Governor 1/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).