---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information"
description: "Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4838"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4838 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holstein"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de96de64-b8f9-4c86-b221-0e6e17010a2b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4838&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "640e5ecd110af220bdc23df25c869e5e2140706df3fd7dbe2125b263ca808d57"
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 4838 (2024) — Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4838%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4838)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4838%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4838)
3. **hb4838 s ed am _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4838%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%202-27%20adopted.htm)
4. **hb4838 s ed amt _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4838%20s%20ed%20amt%20_1%202-27%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holstein — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Cannon — cosponsor (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Do pass
- **2024-01-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 72) `passage`
- **2024-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 322) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-01** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-01** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-01** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed (Roll No. 408)
- **2024-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-04** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 245, 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/de96de64-b8f9-4c86-b221-0e6e17010a2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).