---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring the Department of Administration to publish its comprehensive annual financial report by the end of December"
description: "Requiring the Department of Administration to publish its comprehensive annual financial report by the end of December"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4141"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4141 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10f5bd73-0558-48ac-ac42-6172d1bbadcb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4141&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "09074c538e5e06b44686e94695122d6ae325f9a0e066d7be7e7410c68879e579"
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 4141 (2020) — Requiring the Department of Administration to publish its comprehensive annual financial report by the end of December

## 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=HB4141%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4141)
2. **HB4141 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4141 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4141%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4141)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, P. — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Do pass
- **2020-01-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-21** Passed House (Roll No. 23) `passage`
- **2020-01-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 135) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-13** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 164)
- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-14** House Message received
- **2020-02-19** To Governor 2/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-19** To Governor 2/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10f5bd73-0558-48ac-ac42-6172d1bbadcb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).