---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Human Services to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing Department of Human Services to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "West Virginia SB 31 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5f5ef25-0fa0-4460-a9e4-24e6d50fc75d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=31&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c46520421b7fa5d83bcb146e3f6f258cf8ed02492e37006dfbb7bd38089792ee"
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 SB 31 (2024) — Authorizing Department of Human Services to promulgate legislative rules

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb31%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=31)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb31%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=31)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb31%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=31)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-01-18** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 44) `passage`
- **2024-01-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 44)
- **2024-01-23** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Do pass
- **2024-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 91) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 92)
- **2024-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-05** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-06** House Message received
- **2024-02-09** To Governor 2/9/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-12** To Governor 2/9/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-09** To Governor 2/9/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-15** Approved by Governor 2/15/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-16** Approved by Governor 2/15/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-16** Approved by Governor 2/16/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 174, 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/a5f5ef25-0fa0-4460-a9e4-24e6d50fc75d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).