---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provide for WVDNR officers to be able to work “off duty”"
description: "Provide for WVDNR officers to be able to work “off duty”"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 2631"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2631 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff6a7f3e-d56d-4db5-8fe1-f7024e218314"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2631&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "328a55cf3fbd235feff257b312daa4202412681252891866658a5e9bf4cdb637"
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 2631 (2022) — Provide for WVDNR officers to be able to work “off duty”

## 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=HB2631%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=2631)
2. **HB2631 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB2631 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2631%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=2631)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hott — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-12** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2022-01-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Do pass
- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 56) `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 406) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2022-03-11** Passed House (Roll No. 572) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 217, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff6a7f3e-d56d-4db5-8fe1-f7024e218314`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).