---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules."
description: "Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration to promulgate legislative rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2222"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2222 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1b84f4d-b2a1-4832-986c-0178090e7cff"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2222&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "43d657982cd47bec74d1d7a5cbd4b09c9adf503d975d04b409b07f302e8e119b"
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 2222 (2025) — Relating to authorizing certain agencies of the Department of Administration 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=hb2222%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2222)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2222%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2222)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2222%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2222)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2222%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2222)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smith, D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 20) `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-14** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 127)
- **2025-03-18** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2025-03-19** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 109)
- **2025-03-19** Completed legislative action
- **2025-03-20** House Message received
- **2025-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/26/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1b84f4d-b2a1-4832-986c-0178090e7cff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).