---
type: "Bill"
title: "Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties"
description: "Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4801"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4801 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pritt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-26"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d87874a-cf75-4898-ac2e-45edd0cba792"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4801&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ab5c5531b8d7bebd7538d5afd832cf721a0e908eb61f53b722e94e1da83fc6ca"
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 4801 (2026) — Defining Permissible expenditures for municipalities and counties

## 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=hb4801%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4801)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4801%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4801)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4801%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4801)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pritt — primary (person)
- Flanigan — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-26** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-09** Do pass
- **2026-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/13/26
- **2026-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 90) `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 492) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d87874a-cf75-4898-ac2e-45edd0cba792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).