---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure decision making"
description: "Relating to the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure decision making"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20191S"
identifier: "HB 118"
citation: "West Virginia HB 118 (20191S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-05-20"
last_action: "2019-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/075a04e0-76f2-43d3-bb7e-0d421fed8932"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=118&year=2019&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "214c28dff576e6f2c50a5334374307231894b3a1f77d70caaeeb897ad2b2ce45"
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 118 (20191S) — Relating to the use of post-criminal conduct in professional and occupational initial licensure decision making

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb118%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=118)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb118%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=118)
3. **HB118 SFA _1 Trump 6-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/1X/floor_amends/HB118 SFA _1 Trump 6-1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB118 SFAT Trump 6-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/1X/floor_amends/HB118 SFAT Trump 6-1 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb118%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=1X&i=118)

## Votes

- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 776)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed House (Roll No. 777) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 778)
- **2019-05-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-05-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2019-05-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2019-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 51)
- **2019-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 52) `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 52)
- **2019-06-01** Senate reconsidered action (voice vote)
- **2019-06-01** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-06-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-06-01** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 60) `passage`
- **2019-06-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 60)
- **2019-06-01** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-06-17** House received Senate message
- **2019-06-17** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 817)
- **2019-06-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 818)
- **2019-06-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-06-17** Completed legislative action
- **2019-06-24** House Message received
- **2019-06-25** To Governor 6/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-23** To Governor 6/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-28** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-23** Approved by Governor 6/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-10-01** Chapter 34, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/075a04e0-76f2-43d3-bb7e-0d421fed8932`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).