---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund"
description: "Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4347"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4347 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9aa3fd8-0832-44b2-b3ba-178ae06866d9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4347&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "76d1ea1146d8b874cb30ea0317e848aabc80e086be2e194550eaf73126c8272b"
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 4347 (2018) — Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4347%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4347)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4347%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4347)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4347%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4347)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Moore — primary (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-30** To Roads and Transportation then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-30** To House Roads and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-14** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 207) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-26** House Message received
- **2018-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 316) `passage`
- **2018-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/10/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9aa3fd8-0832-44b2-b3ba-178ae06866d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).