---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making"
description: "Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4353"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4353 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bd63911-87ed-4c67-b2c3-90a9b5fb5ccf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4353&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7907e7cddcfd4e89eb0dbc8b48307927fe1229f6602e93f4cf03bb5e969ded3b"
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 4353 (2020) — Creating a rational nexus requirement between prior criminal conduct and initial licensure decision making

## 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=HB4353%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4353)
2. **HB4353 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4353 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4353 SFAT _1 MAYNARD 2-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4353 SFAT _1 MAYNARD 2-7 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4353%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4353)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-15** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Do pass
- **2020-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 64) `passage`
- **2020-01-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-14** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/14/20
- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 174) `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-19** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-19** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 229)
- **2020-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-19** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-20** House Message received
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 247, 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/2bd63911-87ed-4c67-b2c3-90a9b5fb5ccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).