---
type: "Bill"
title: "Defining terms related to livestock trespassing"
description: "Defining terms related to livestock trespassing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4050"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4050 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdd87182-e7ec-446a-a80c-5e86f96104ed"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4050&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ccca9b5ea189ab88841697ba010a29b17b0f21cbad8ac5646c0884c752185e90"
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 4050 (2022) — Defining terms related to livestock trespassing

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4050%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4050)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4050%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4050)
3. **HB4050 S AGR AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4050 S AGR AM _1 3-4 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4050%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4050)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Hanshaw — 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`
- **2022-02-09** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2022-02-09** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-01** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed House (Roll No. 329) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-03** To Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** To Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with 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`
- **2022-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 407) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 573)
- **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 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 8, 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/fdd87182-e7ec-446a-a80c-5e86f96104ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).