---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office"
description: "Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2856"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2856 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Uniform Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Householder"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e0afb54-6a84-4645-aaf4-382a8d0fbc3e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2856&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "213ad22fbebdf142e09da95e0bff50ed3d183a459a5b3b724ca6846b109a5a8b"
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 2856 (2019) — Relating to the administration of the operating fund of the securities division of the Auditor’s office

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2856%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2856)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2856%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2856)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Householder — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-06** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** With title amendment, do pass
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 230) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-22** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 511) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 127, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e0afb54-6a84-4645-aaf4-382a8d0fbc3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).